Tyne and Wear HER(17253): Newcastle, Castle Garth, mortar mixer - Details
17253
Newcastle
Newcastle, Castle Garth, mortar mixer
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Mortar Mixer
Early Medieval
Find
A semicircle of stake holes (circa 3.50m in diameter) with a core amd surround of burned mortar and extensive spreads of limestone fragments was located on the Anglo Saxon cemetery surface immediately below the clay that formed the 1080 Castle rampart. It has been suggested that this is a mortar mixer. Other Anglo Saxon examples have been found at Wearmouth and at St. Peter's Street in Northampton. The mortar mixer may have been used to create the stone buildings, most specifically the presumed stone chapel (HER 13528).
250
638
NZ250638
John Nolan with Barbara Harbottle and Jenny Vaughan, 2010, The Early Medieval cemetery at the castle, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Fifth Series, Vol XXXIX, pp 172-3 and 257-8; C.P. Graves and D.H. Heslop, 2013, Newcastle upon Tyne - the Eye of the North, An Archaeological Assessment, p 83; R. Cramp, 2005, Wearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites, Vol 1, pp 93-5; J.H. Williams, 1979, The mortar mixers in St. Peter's Street, Northampton, Excavations 1973-1976, Archaeological Monograph 2, pp 118-133