Wallsend vicus, conduit

HER Number:
812

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend vicus, conduit

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Watercourse

Site Type: Specific:
Conduit

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Writing in 1789, Brand recorded that, "In sinking the shaft of a pit...a conduit (was) discovered... The viewer crept a good way along it and described it as built of great stones of coarse workmanship". There is no evidence for the date of this structure, or its function, or its precise location. Bidwell et al. suggest it was west of the fort.

Easting:
2996

Northing:
6592

Grid Reference:
NZ29966592

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 812 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 604 P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 2 no. 3