Excavations on the site of the Newcastle Pottery, Pottery Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne
| Autor: | Vance, Scott |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| DOI: | 10.5284/1101238 |
| Popis: | Archaeologia Aeliana, 50.5, 319-393 An extensive programme of archaeological work was undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited on land at the junction of Forth Banks and Pottery Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2016. Until industrialisation, this area around the Skinner Burn watercourse remained essentially agricultural land to the west of the town walls. Like much of the region, however, the landscape was swiftly and dramatically altered throughout the nineteenth century by development of manufactories, ironworks, engineering works and the railway. Historic maps and documentary sources show that the site was the location of a pottery works from the latter part of the eighteenth century. No structural remains were encountered from the earliest phase of the works when the pottery was under the ownership of George Spearman & Co. (c. 1772-1790) and Addison, Falconer & Co. from c. 1790, although an assemblage of waste pottery dating from the late eighteenth century was recovered. The site yielded extensive structural remains of the latest incarnation of Newcastle Pottery, which historic maps and documents indicate was built between 1825 and 1827, with modifications occurring throughout the nineteenth century. Elements of eleven rooms (including slip house, kiln rooms, dipping house and workshops) were exposed as well as fragments of five bottle kilns, two slip kilns, a muffle kiln, two coal stores, a mixing ark and two slip tanks. The pottery was closed in 1893 and partially demolished by 1896, although some elements were retained and modified. |
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