Wallsend vicus, well

HER Number:
811

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend vicus, well

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A well was reported to J.C. Bruce by Mr Reay, and the former located it outside the south-west corner of the fort "very close to the fort wall, encroaching on the presumed position of the defensive ditches. However since the recent excavations by N. Holbrook have indicated that the ditches were filled in during the Roman period there could still have been a late Roman well in that location. However it could have been a medieval feature".

Easting:
3003

Northing:
6594

Grid Reference:
NZ30036594

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 811 >> J.C. Bruce, 1851, The Roman Wall, p. 116 and pl. IV opp. p. 113 P.T. Bidwell, N. Holbrook & M.E. Snape, 1991, The Roman Fort at Wallsend and its Environs, p. 3 no. 7