Newcastle, Moot Hall, supposed Roman well

HER Number:
1479

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Moot Hall, supposed Roman well

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
During "digging the foundation for the county courts in Newcastle" there was discovered 5 feet down "a well of Roman masonry...near the edge of the bank". To raise it to the desired level "a very strong wall in the form of a trapezium, and inclosing about ten square yards, had been constructed on frame work, of beams of oak, fixed perpendicularly and horizontally,...and filled up...with clear blue clay". It is possible that this was the pit (its sides 1.3 x 1.5 metres) recorded by John Nolan in 1986, though he noted that there were no traces of masonry.

Easting:
2512

Northing:
6387

Grid Reference:
NZ25126387

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1479 >> J. Hodgson, 1812, Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 2, 304 J. Sykes, 1833, Local Records, II, 51-52 J.C. Bruce, 1851, The Roman Wall, 127-29 G.R. B. Spain, 1930, Newcastle upon Tyne Fort, Northumberland County History,XIII, 502 J. Nolan, 1994, Supposed Well...Moot Hall, Castle Garth, 1986