Heworth Common Pottery

HER Number

8489

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Heworth Common Pottery

Place

Heworth

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Pottery Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

In 1759 and 1760 the Heworth Common Pottery was making Tortoise-shell, Agatestone and Black ware. Possibly owned by Robert Callendar of Newcastle.

Easting

429000

Northing

561000

Grid Reference

NZ429000561000

Sources

F. Buckley, 1927, Potteries on the Tyne and Other Northern Potteries during the C18, Archaeologia Aeliana, series 4, Vol 4, pp 68-82