Newcastle, Wall Knoll, well

HER Number:
11972

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Wall Knoll, well

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
A well was found in 1881 on high ground 25 yards south of Wall Knoll Tower (HER 1562). It was rectangular and 4 feet 10 inches x 6 feet 8 inches in plan, covered by a brick vault and with stone lining. Part of it was covered by a circular stone like a millstone (5 feet in diameter and 9 inches thick) with a square hole in the centre. An entrance had been left in the arched roof of the well and in it were lengths of cast iron piping with flanged joints. The oak timber stays were black with age. A culvert 'of curious construction' led towards the well. It was formed with flat stone slabs on the base with a semi-circular arch 18 inches in diameter above it. The stones were dressed on the inside and outside and Holmes considered them to be reused.

Easting:
254

Northing:
641

Grid Reference:
NZ254641

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
S. Holmes, 1896, The Walls of Newcastle-upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, pp. 1-25