Archaeologia Aeliana Series 4

A survey undertaken during low-water conditions of the river permitted the planning of the bridge and revealed several errors in the survey of 1906. The method of survey in water up to 3ft 6in deep is described. The clearest remaining features are the S abutment and the first two piers, but remains of other piers suggest a figure of 43-5ft for the distance between centres. A plan of the entire length of the bridge shows the known remains together with those conjectured. The position of the N abutment is still unknown.

NZ 374695. The excavation yielded evidence for early timber buildings consistent with both Iron Age and RB native settlement. There were also later timber buildings, one of them, with a semi-circular west end, being earlier than the Norman church and conceivably designed for some religious purpose. Others, rectangular in shape, were again of somewhat uncertain context and function but were almost certainly earlier than the Norman foundations. Post-conquest monastic buildings included a sacristy, probably of 14th cent, a priest's house and a byre. Finally, there were some post-Suppression buildings, one of them associated with later military occupation of the site. There is a note on the Tudor fortifications at the so-called Spanish Battery, and, in connection with a newly-found sculptured stone from the site, a reconsideration by Miss Cramp of the pre-Conquest stones already recorded from Tynemouth. Au