Gateshead, cock pits

HER Number:
16992

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, cock pits

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Baiting Place

Site Type: Specific:
Cockpit

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Two cockpits are recorded in Gateshead in 1746. One was the New Cover'd Pit, which hosted fights with round pointed silver spurs.

Easting:

Northing:

Grid Reference:
NZ

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 129