Newcastle, Westgate Road, clay bowl

HER Number:
6657

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Westgate Road, clay bowl

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:
Container

Site Type: Specific:
Bowl

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Dr Bruce found a tiny clay bowl (tobacco pipe?) dug from a depth of 10 feet in 1854, at the back of the Assembly Rooms of Newcastle where, when a sewer under the Vicarage House was being laid. He was looking for the remains of Hadrian's Wall.

Easting:
243

Northing:
640

Grid Reference:
NZ243640

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Series 1, I:29, p 245 (1857)