Shown on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1852

Shown on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1852

This prehistoric or Romano-British settlement was excavated in 2018 and consisted of a penannular ditched enclosure approximately 20m in diameter with a south-east–facing entrance. No internal features were identified. To the east was a larger rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 60m across with the remains of internal sub-divisions, two possible roundhouses and several small pits and postholes. Finds included sherds of handmade pottery, possible mortaria fragments of likely Roman date, and some lead objects. The features were truncated by ridge and furrow {1}.
A post excavation assessment report is pending.

This is a small two storey brick building with three bays to the front onto Chillingham Road. There are blue warehouse doors with a hatch above on the south elevation. It is first shown on the Ordnance Survey 1907 1:500 Town Plan for Newcastle with rear extensions added later in the 20th century, and labelled as 'Works' on later maps. The building was used as a graphite works.

This linear feature oriented northwest-southeast was identified by trial trenching and subsequently subject to excavation in 2017. The large irregular cutting was 7.55m wide and up to 2.2m deep and appeared to have been lined at the base with a sandy silty clay. Some silting up had occurred prior to the deliberate backfilling of the feature in the post-medieval period. Interpretation of the feature is difficult but it may have been a drain, possibly relating to mining activity {1}.

This single lane road bridge was built in the mid-19th century to cross the new Tynemouth North Pier Railway (HER2049). It was constructed from roughly dressed sandstone blocks and rubble, with a steel deck (possibly a replacement), with simple square abutments to the north and south and wing walls extending into the railway cutting. It is first shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:10560 map of 1865.

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This group of gullies, pits and post‐holes was excavated in advance of housebuilding. No artefacts were found, suggesting that the remains were related to agricultural rather than settlement activity. Radiocarbon dating of the features returned dates from the Late Mesolithic to the Late Iron Age/early Roman periods.

An east-west aligned ditch which turned to the south at the western end was identified during an evaluation in advance of development. The fill contained palaeoenvironmental remains compatible with the limited palaeoenvironmental evidence for early medieval sites in the region, however further excavation dated it to the post-medieval period.

These two north-south aligned ditches located east of a barrow (HER 19033) may be related to post-medieval field systems.