Coutts' Shipbuilding Yard

Coutts' Shipbuilding Yard

HER Number
4208
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Coutts' Shipbuilding Yard
Place
Walker
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Maritime
Site Type: Broad
Marine Construction Site
Site Type: Specific
Shipyard
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of the area a ship building yard is shown immediately to the east of Battle Hill. A furnace lies towards the northern edge of the yard and a crane lies towards the centre, some distance back from the river. A walled inlet lies just beyond the northern edge of the yard and the boat landing for the Hebburn Quay Ferry lies at the southern edge of the yard. A complex of structures on the western edge of the yard is probably mostly residential. On the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map the yard has been subsumed within the Neptune yard. The site lies within the current Swan Hunter Yard, and it would seem unlikely that any early features will have survived.
Easting
429810
Northing
564840
Grid Reference
NZ429810564840
Sources
<< HER 4208 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98
The Archaeological Practice, 2002, Shipbuilding on Tyne and Wear - Prehistory to Present. Tyne & Wear Historic Environment Record.