Newcastle, Clavering Place, Roman pottery

HER Number:
1445

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Clavering Place, Roman pottery

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:
Container

Site Type: Specific:
Amphora

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2-C3

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Over most of the area excavated to reveal the Carmelite Friary "there was a layer of brown clay which contained Roman pottery", and which sealed features which may have been the remains of structures. The pottery included fragments of cooking-pots, bowls, beakers, a colander, mortaria, jars, amphorae and samian ware, and was considered to date from the 2nd-3rd centuries A.D.

Easting:
2486

Northing:
6380

Grid Reference:
NZ24866380

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1445 >> B. Harbottle, 1968, Excavations at the Carmelite Friary, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1965 & 1967, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, 178-9, 202-05