Walbottle Campus, pottery bowl

HER Number:
13544

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walbottle Campus, pottery bowl

Place:
Walbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:
Container

Site Type: Specific:
Bowl

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Pottery bowl found in the school grounds. It bears the maker's stamp 'Wedgwood' and 'Made in England'. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum, its date of manufacture is after 1891. It is made of black basaltes stoneware after the style of this earlier Wedgwood production, with the design case in a mould.

Easting:
165

Northing:
668

Grid Reference:
NZ165668

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ernest Sockett, 1968, A Walbottle Miscellany in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, No. 3, Sept 1968, pp 9-11