Neolithic flints have been recovered by Dr J. Weyman during field walking north of Dewley Hill. They were widely scattered in the same field, from north of the mound to east of the mound, and just extended into the next field to the north. The two best pieces are a hollow-based arrowhead (see below) and a knife. The rest are Neolithic-type worked flakes.

"Farendon-grange" is listed as one of the properties of Hexham Priory. Its boundaries are described in great detail suggesting that most of its land was in a single block between the vills of Herrington (sic) and Silksworth, but in the territory of the latter. Also mentioned - a windmill, oven, brewhouse. The above grid reference is an approximate location, calculated from the position of Farrington Hall on the O.S. 1st edition, on the basis that this was presumably the remnant of the grange. "Farnton Hall" was described by Surtees as "a hamlet within the Constablery of Silksworth which it adjoins on the west", and he recites the complicated descent of the property from 39 Eliz. to 1801.

The existence of this chapel is supported by only a single published and undated charter in which John, son of Marmaduke, gave his relative John de Dalton, chaplain, land in the vill of Silksworth, on the west side of the vill next to the chapel of St. Leonard. The O.S. 1st edition bears the message "Chapel Garth Well" in the field immediately south of Silksworth village, but I have not yet found evidence to support this name and location. On the strength of this, however, the O.S. archaeological record card gives an optimistic 8 figure grid reference. Surtees offers no clue to the date of the chapel's foundation. He suggests that it disappeared at the time of the dissolution of the chantries.

From its appearance the chapel was probably founded in the early C13, and more probably by one of the Byker family than by predecessors of the earls of Northumberland. Certainly in existence in 1278, when a chantry was endowed in it. Though the chantry was abolished before 1378/9 the chapel survived to the Reformation when it was granted with its lands to the mayor and burgesses of Newcastle. As the surrounding area became industrialized the chapel deteriorated, it was described by Brand in 1782 as a lumber-room for a glasshouse, and by 1916 all trace was said to be gone. Oblong in plan, 47' 8" E-W, 16' N-S. Three-light E window; round-arched W door; N door in E half.

In 2018 a targeted evaluation trench located the north-east corner of the chapel.The chapel wall was constructed out of sandstone blocks with a rubble core. Courses of up to seven mortar bonded blocks were recorded. A second exposed sandstone wall may be part of the chapels boundary wall. Excavators recovered 16th century green-glazed pottery and a fragment of human bone. Dated C13th.

This turret was discovered in 1928,"after considerable search", on the south side of the main road, "on the recently developed Newburn UDC housing area, and on the east corner of the newly constructed Callerton Road". It was partly excavated at this time, and its distance west of milecastle 10 given as 443 yards. The ground had previously been cultivated. Note that the O.S. gives this distance as 509 yards. It was re-excavated in 1980, and was found to have been much damaged by the insertion of various services. Nevertheless two courses of wall, 1.07m thick above the footings, usually survived. The facing stones were pointed, the core just formed by clay and sandstone blocks. The door threshold was overlain by a series of hearths against the north wall. There were two floor levels, and possibly the remains of a platform in the south-west corner. Finds included a spearhead and four worked flints. The pottery was almost all Hadrianic (117-138). The turret measured 13 feet 6 inches (4.10 m) north-south, and 13 feet 9 inches (4.20 m) east-west, had an entrance at the south-east corner, and retained traces of an internal platform. It went out of use in the mid-2nd century, but was not demolished then, though it may have been demolished in the Roman period. Dated C2.

Curtain. Appears to have lain under north edge of road west of milecastle 10 to Walbottle Dene. Here, north of the road, it turned 20 degrees to the south. "Here in 1864 a long stretch of the Wall was removed" (NZ 1640 6678 to 1610 6684) while realigning the road. West of the Dene the Wall runs under the south pavement of the main road. Vallum. Can be traced in and out of the Dene, was sectioned in 1980 in Woodside Avenue (NZ 1612 6679), shows as slight earthworks in the fields south of the road west of Throckley Bank Top. Military Way was not found in the 1980 excavation. Turret 10b has not been found; approximate position thought to be 1552 6685. Milecastle 11, computed site is the Throckley and District Bank Top Club, supposed to have been seen by MacLauchlan, was not found in 1928 on S side of main road W of Throckley Bank Top; in 1929; in 1959 E of Throckley Bank Top; in 1983 on S side of main road at NZ 1490 6685. Section of Wall recorded during the installation of a telecommunications cable in Hexham Road/Coach Road in 2001. Section of Hadrian's Wall foundation and a cippi pit found in 2003 in an evaluation trench outside Throckley Middle School. A whole complex of these pits, 145 in all, which are thought to have held entanglements of sharpened branches to act like barbed wire, were recorded during the installation of water mains in 2002 for a distance of 1 km. Some pits retained the impressions of two upright stakes. A concentration of Roman pottery was recorded, probably discarded from turret 11b. A metalled road surface was also revealed, probably representing a road to milecastle 11. Near to this point a coin hoard was found in 1879 in a pot just behind the Wall. Prehistoric ardmarks, a ditch and gullies were found. A watching brief during drilling of boreholes at Throckley Waterworks in January 2004, may have located the Roman ditch. An evaluation in June 2004 on the south side of Hexham Road opposite the waterworks recorded a small area of tightly packed stones - may possibly have been part of Hadrian's Wall or its subsequent robbing, but did not conform to the character of Broad Wall foundations as known in this sector. An evaluation outside Throckley Middle School in April 2004, in advance of water mains installation, recorded more of the Wall (2.8m wide) and a cippi pit. The underlying soil contained burnt wood and plants possibly representing clearance of ground. Evaluation at Walbottle Campus in 2005 in advance of service installation in a Scheduled section of Hadrian's Wall found that the Wall survived to three courses in height and was found under the northern carriageway of Hexham Road at a depth of 0.40m below the road surface. Evaluation in 2013 by ARS at land adjacent to Tyne View House, Hexham Road revealed an intact section of Hadrian's Wall 0.54m in height. The section was encountered at 0.51m bgl and overlain by concrete as part of a base layer for the modern road surface. During an evaluation in 2009 at Prospect House, Throckley remains interpretated as a service track running along the inner elevation of the curtain wall (south side) were uncovered. ASUD uncovered the remains of the defensive ditch of Hadrian's Wall in two trenches immediately north of the wall at Throckley North in 2015. The ditch survives at a depth of 0.4-0.5m bgl.
Archaeological monitoring by NAA in 2015 during work on the gas main revealed evidence of the Wall and/or ditches in the vicinity of St Cuthberts Primary School. The most extensive remains were located on the main road around Braeburn Court. These were truncated deposits which may have been part of the Wall foundations as well as likely ditch fills. The edge of the ditch was also discovered in one of the trenches roughly outside 18 Hawthorn Terrace.
The lower courses of the northern edge of Hadrian's Wall with the stone and clay core immediately behind was located in 2 cross-carriage way evaluation trenches on Hexham Road in June 2017. The facing stones were found to be preserved
to a greater depth in the western most trench (west edge of 4 Rose Wood), with at least three courses surviving. Only one course of facing stones was observed in the eastern trench (west edge of Senate House). A compacted road/trackway surface was also observed within the eastern trench. This abutted the north, facing stones of Hadrian’s Wall and lay on the natural substrate. The positions of the northern facing stones in the two cross-carriageway trenches suggests that the current line of Hexham Road between these two locations does not exactly follow the line of Hadrian’s Wall. As the current road progresses east it gradually appears to creep northwards, away from the original Wall line. Dated C2.

This milecastle was first noted by Bruce in 1864, opposite Dene House, when the remaking of the road revealed not only the Wall but also the north gate of the milecastle. "The gateway is of the usual massive span, about eleven feet, the stones of the piers are of the massive character that we are accustomed to see, though unhappily only two courses remain. The pivot holes of the gate exist, and the check in the floor against which the gates struck. There is no central stone, as in other places". He recommended that the gateway should be preserved in situ, and it also survived the next road improvements in 1885. Further investigations in 1928 located part of the south gate and the south- west angle, south of the main road. Little remained of the footings of the east wall and no internal buildings were found. Both gates appear to be type IV. Foundations of north gate are visible; the main road lies over the middle of the site. Milecastle 10 was re-examined in 1999-2001. It measures 17.69m x 14.76m internally with broad walls 2.98m wide. The northern gateway has jambs in large masonry and a threshold and lies in the south-east corner of the front garden of Dene House. The eastern iron collar of the gate is worn, but the western one is not, suggesting that only one leaf of the gate was usually open. Excavation in the south-east corner of the milecastle revealed a hearth or oven. Dated C2.

Between the Chapel House (9) and Walbottle Dene (10) Milecastles "the Committee located by measurement another turret opposite Hawthorn Terrace in Walbottle and 570 yards east of Walbottle Dene Milecastle. This turret has been named the Walbottle Turret. The south wall of the turret was found under the hedge bank on the south side of the main road and measured 19 feet along its south wall with an entrance facing south in the usual position at the east end of the south face". It is recorded as being only 3 feet thick. Same massive masonry as turret 7B with the door in the same position. Dated C2.

Curtain. Has not been investigated in this mile, and is presumed to lie under the road. Wall Ditch. Visible on the north side of the road in the grounds of Walbottle School. Vallum. Visible as earthworks parallel with and south of the road, interrupted in places by roads etc. In 1962-3 a trench was excavated over the line of the ditch at Walbottle Campus (NZ 167 667) by the Campus Archaeological Society. The topsoil yielded many clay tobacco pipe stems. Below the topsoil was clay. Below this and 4 feet below modern ground level was a silty material in which a small fragment of presumably Roman black coarse ware was found and an old turf line over undisturbed [natural?] grey clay. Flooding prevented further excavation. Turret 9b was "looked for by measurement and excavation" in 1928 but not found. In 2001 during a watching brief on a electricity service trench at Stephenson Terrace, Blucher the ditch was observed. It was 5m wide and the northern lip lay some 2.5m south of the line shown on the OS. A watching brief and evaluation during installation of services to a new coach depot on the north side of Hexham Road, Blucher failed to find remains of the ditch. Ditch found to survive at Walbottle Service Station. The top of the ditch fill lay 0.78m below current ground level, The northern upcast mound or glacis was found 0.43m below ground level. The ditch was c8m in width and 2.6m deep. A post medieval stone culvert had been built into the ditch. Vallum recorded during installation of electricity cable at Blucher in May 2003. In 2005 an evaluation in the playing fields at St Cuthbert's RC Primary School, Walbottle, recorded a compact deposit containing flecks of charcoal and many small angular stones, with a single large flat stone at the western side of the trench. The deposit was found to be 0.20m thick. . Beneath it a layer of overlapping small stones was found. A single sherd of Roman grey pottery was found but it had been present in the plough soil for a considerable period. Despite the lack of dating evidence, the presence of this stony layer between the curtain Wall and vallum leads to speculation that it could be a degraded part of the Military Way or part of a later re-surfacing. The surface was left in-situ. A watching brief during the installation of an electricity cable to serve the new development at Walbottle service station in 2005, recorded a deposit of sandstones and clay which may have been core material from the Wall. An evaluation in 2008 by TWM on Stephenson Terrace encountered the core of Hadrian's Wall at 92.94mOD just below the modern road surface. Dated C2.

The existence of a milecastle on Chapel House farm was noted by Horsley, but its position was only definitely located in 1928 by the North of England Excavation Committee. The southern two-thirds was excavated by E. Birley in 1929, the rest being under the road, and the north gate was recorded in 1951. This was a long-axis milecastle, with the internal dimensions of 60 feet N-S and 48 feet 10 inches E-W. The outer walls had been severely robbed, but enough remained of the north gate to show it was type IV. There were three periods of occupation, according to E. Birley. I (c. A.D. 120/125-c. 195): insubstantial building W of road, stone one to E. II (200/205-c. 295): road remade; new stone building to W; N extension to E building. III (297/300-368): a few patches of masonry remained. It is now thought, on the strength of a coin of Valentinian (364-375) that this milecastle was occupied for as long as the Wall was in use. Other finds include a gaming board, a sword scabbard chape and part of a relief of a female figure. Evaluated by EH in August 1999 to investigate the condition of the remains and their vulnerability to cultivation. The footings of the milecastle were 3.16m thick. The wall core was made up of sandstone rubble faced with sandstone blocks. The wall of an interior building was found. It survived to a height of three courses 880mm. There was a paved surface of sandstone slabs around the south-east corner of the milecastle. 4.65m to the east of the milecastle was a ditch. The milecastle was found to have been built onto a series of strata at least 450mm deep. This could represent a building platform in preparation for the construction of the milecastle, or could relate to early Roman or prehistoric occupation. In 2000 a ditch was found outside the eastern wall of the milecastle. Dated C2.