Newcastle, Richmond Place, circular stone

HER Number:
11968

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Richmond Place, circular stone

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Millstone

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In a trench excavated by the North of England Excavation Committee in 1928 on the projected line of Hadrian's Wall a large flat circular stone was recorded at a depth of 9 feet. The stone was 4 feet in diameter and was shaped like a mill stone with a central hole 6 inches in diameter. It was surrounded by a circle of wooden piles. NEEC thought it was post-Roman.

Easting:
2580

Northing:
6442

Grid Reference:
NZ25806442

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Spain, G.R.B., 1929, 'Second Report of the North of England Excavation Committee: 1926-28: The Line of the Roman Wall through Newcastle', 6-10; PROC. SOC. ANTIQ. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (4) III (1927-28), 243-4.