Newcastle, Croft Street, cobbler's waste

HER Number:
11962

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Croft Street, cobbler's waste

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Ecofacts

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Animal Remains

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A few scraps of wood and leather offcuts were preserved in the waterlogged bastion ditch fill, which was excavated in 1989. Stray pieces of cobbler's waste including several fragments of narrow, square-toed shoe soles. One piece of wood had been worked.

Easting:
251

Northing:
644

Grid Reference:
NZ251644

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
J. Vaughan, 1993, 'Miscellaneous' in J. Nolan et al 'The Town Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne'