Tyne and Wear HER(13530): Newcastle, Sandhill, market - Details
13530
Newcastle
Newcastle, Sandhill, market
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Commercial
Market
Medieval
Implied Evidence
There is no early documentary evidence for Sandhill and there has been no excavation, but without Sandhill, The Side and All Hallows Bank (today Akenside Hill), the medieval bridge would have led nowhere. The position of Sandhill near the bridgehead, its triangular shape, the location of the later Guildhall on its south side, and the existence of the market cross (Cale Cross) at its north end, all support the possibility that an early market place was located there.
2521
6385
NZ25216385
Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle, in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 31