Tyne and Wear HER(7753): Gardener's Houses, bell pits - Details
7753
Newcastle
Gardener's Houses, bell pits
Gardener's Houses
NZ27NW
Industrial
Mineral Pit
Bell Pit
Post Medieval
Cropmark
Small pits, up to 2 metres in diameter, appear north of Gardener’s Houses on aerial photographs from 1974 and 1980. They had disappeared by 1991 as a result of open-casting. It is reported that the pits were concentrated between grid ref. NZ 207 747 and NZ 207 749.
207
747
NZ207747
Aerial Photographs:
Newcastle upon Tyne City Council, August 1974, ref. 6 872/3.
Newcastle upon Tyne City Council, 1980, ref. 29912333-7.
The Archaeological Practice, 1996, Gardener’s Houses, Dinnington, Tyne & Wear: An Archaeological Assessment. Unpublished report for H J Banks & company Limited, p.9. (T&W HER 1996/13)