Walbottle Campus, pottery bowl

HER Number

13544

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walbottle Campus, pottery bowl

Place

Walbottle

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Bowl

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Pottery bowl found in the school grounds. It bears the maker's stamp 'Wedgwood' and 'Made in England'. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum, its date of manufacture is after 1891. It is made of black basaltes stoneware after the style of this earlier Wedgwood production, with the design case in a mould.

Easting

416500

Northing

566800

Grid Reference

NZ416500566800

Sources

Ernest Sockett, 1968, A Walbottle Miscellany in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, No. 3, Sept 1968, pp 9-11