Wallsend vicus, conduit
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
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
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
429960
Northing
565920
Grid Reference
NZ429960565920
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
P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 2 no. 3