Quayside, cistern heads and roasting jack

Quayside, cistern heads and roasting jack

HER Number
6625
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Quayside, cistern heads and roasting jack
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Cistern
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Two large cistern heads and an old roasting jack. Cistern heads have a sort of acanthus leaf pattern on them, on one is the letter A and the year 1777 in ornamental letters, on the other is a lion and the same date. Found in an old house on the Quay, now demolished. Donated to the Society of Antiquaries by J.F. Edge, for Newcastle Corporation in around 1905.
Easting
425300
Northing
563800
Grid Reference
NZ425300563800
Sources
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Series 3, I (1905), p 94.