Sandhill, market

HER Number

13530

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Sandhill, market

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Market

Site Type: Specific

Market

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Implied Evidence

Description

There is no early documentary evidence for Sandhill and there has been no excavation, but without Sandhill, The Side and All Hallows Bank (today Akenside Hill), the medieval bridge would have led nowhere. The position of Sandhill near the bridgehead, its triangular shape, the location of the later Guildhall on its south side, and the existence of the market cross (Cale Cross) at its north end, all support the possibility that an early market place was located there.

Easting

425210

Northing

563850

Grid Reference

NZ425210563850

Sources

Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle, in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 31