Wallsend Fort, well under Wallsend House

HER Number:
817

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend Fort, well under Wallsend House

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
During his excursion to the Wall in 1807, Dr. John Lingard was told by Mrs. Buddle "that in digging a cellar under the dining room of Mr. Buddle's house, a deep well was found with great quantities of bones, and horns of animals of the ox, stag and boar kinds in it...". John Buddle's house (Wallsend House) lay just within the west wall of the fort.

Easting:
300

Northing:
660

Grid Reference:
NZ300660

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 817 >> R.C. Bosanquet, ed. 1929, Dr. John Lingard's Notes on the Roman Wall, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VI, p. J. Hodgson, 1840, History of Northumberland, Part 2, Vol. III, p. 171n. J.C. Bruce & C.M.Daniels, 1978, Wallsend (Segedunum), Handbook to the Roman Wall, 13th ed., p. 58