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Jennifer
Morrison
Tyne and Wear Archaeology Officer
Historic Environment Section
Newcastle City Council
Environment and Regeneration Directorate
Housing, Planning and Transport
Civic Centre
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8PH
England
Tel: +44 (0)191 2116218
During 2004 to 2005 English Heritage funded the archaeological assessment of the five small medieval towns of Tyne and Wear. The work involved the collation and analysis of documentary, cartographic and archaeological sources for evidence of the extent and character of the urban development of the towns from the historic core to the major areas of residential and industrial expansion in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The towns covered by this survey are: