Newcastle, Dean Street, wine flask

HER Number:
6732

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Dean Street, wine flask

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:
Food and Liquid Storage Container

Site Type: Specific:
Flask

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C16

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Dean Street, wine flask 16th century light grey stoneware wine flask with globular body. Identified as type II in J.G. Hursts typology. These flasks are thought to have been made in Martincamp in northern France. Found in June 1979 in Dean Street, by the Cathedral steps, in a sewer trench. Donated to the Society of Antiquaries by A. Nichols of Monkseaton.

Easting:
250

Northing:
640

Grid Reference:
NZ250640

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Museum of Antiquities, 1979.54, Box 1338; Archaeologia Aeliana (5), VIII (1980), pp 157-8