Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5

Title The title of the publication or report Title:	Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5
Series The series the publication or report is included in Series:	Archaeologia Aeliana
Volume Volume number and part Volume:	22
Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book Publication Type:	Journal
Publisher The publisher of the publication or report Publisher:	Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published Year of Publication:	1994
Source Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in. Source:	ADS Archive (ADS Archive)
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered Created Date:	30 May 2019

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Article Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End	Abstract
Prelims		0
Bessie Surtees House Two Merchant Houses in Sandhill, Newcastle upon Tyne	C Thomson David Heslop Grace McCombie	1 - 27	Details two houses, now amalgamated to form EH's Historic Properties Office and exhibition rooms. Their original fabric and documentary details of development and ownership are included.
An Unenclosed Bronze Age House Site at Lookout Plantation, Northumberland	Jason Monaghan	29 - 41	Reports a site uncovered during pipe-laying work and comprising an apparently heptagonal slot with a south west facing entrance and timber porch structure enclosing an inner ring of seven posts.
An Excavation in the Roman Cemetery at South Shields	Margaret E Snape	43 - 66	Several areas of use were revealed in a small area containing both cremations and inhumations. No unburnt bone survived because of the acidity of the soil, but gravegoods were found. There are separately authored reports on: `Pottery' by P T Bidwell (51--3); `Small finds' by A T Croom (53--63) including copper alloy, iron, and bone bracelets, copper alloy and iron rings, glass beads, jet objects, iron coffin fittings, copper alloy brooches, hobnails, a shale bracelet, millstone, and fragments of glass; and `Human remains' by J Langston (63).
Recording the Roman Wall	Alan M Whitworth	67 - 77	Outlines the scheduling and guardianship of the Wall and describes the recording programme recently undertaken in aid of the better management and understanding of those parts of the Wall for which the State is directly responsible. There follows `Appendix 1' (75) details portions of Hadrian's Wall in the guardianship of the Secretary of State for National Heritage and `Appendix 2' (76--7) records the Hadrian's Wall drawing archive up to December 1993.
A late Pre-Conquest Carving from Corbridge (Roman Site)	Caroline Richardson	79 - 84	Reports a fragment of Roman moulded sandstone apparently re-carved in the Late AS period.
Excavation adjacent to Close Gate, Newcastle, 1988-9	R Maxwell Jenny Vaughan Richard Fraser	85 - 152	Reports the excavation of a section of the medieval town wall and the Riverside Tower south of the Close Gate, to identify the precise location and investigate the relationship between their construction and the development of the medieval waterfront on The Close. Specialist reports cover pottery (medieval--post-medieval), clay pipes, glass (vessel and window), coins, copper alloy artefacts, lead, iron objects, shale, amber, leather, bone objects, building materials, masons' marks, and graffiti. There are also reports on: `Plant remains' by J P Huntley (134--44); `Soils' by Robert S Shiel (144--5); and `Petrology' by Tim Pettigrew (145).
Excavations on Westgate Road, Newcastle 1991	Laurence Truman David Heslop Jenny Vaughan	153	Reports the excavation of a section of the medieval town wall and the Riverside Tower south of the Close Gate, to identify the precise location and investigate the relationship between their construction and the development of the medieval waterfront on The Close. Specialist reports cover pottery (medieval--post-medieval), clay pipes, glass (vessel and window), coins, copper alloy artefacts, lead, iron objects, shale, amber, leather, bone objects, building materials, masons' marks, and graffiti. There are also reports on: `Plant remains' by J P Huntley (134--44); `Soils' by Robert S Shiel (144--5); and `Petrology' by Tim Pettigrew (145).
The Two Towers of Hexham	Peter F Ryder	185 - 217	A full architectural description of the buildings (the Moot Hall and the Old Gaol) including an outline of their structural history (use, repair, and alterations), along with a summary of the other buildings within the area of the former `Archbishop's Precinct'.
Excavations at Newcastle Quayside: The Evolution of Sandgate	Glyn Goodrick Colm F O'Brien Alan Williams	219	Second stage of investigations concerning the infrastructure of the extra-mural riverside area (see also 94/561). The principal aims of these 1992 excavations were to test for an episode of occupation before previously noted sand-dumping, and to see where the dumping ceased and buildings were constructed. Pottery, clay pipes, building materials, metalwork and stone were recovered.
Tyne Crossings at Hexham up to 1795	S M Linsley	235 - 253	A brief overview of fords and ferries followed by details of bridges. Includes an appendix detailing the Trevelyan Papers (251--2).
Coffee Houses and Book Clubs in Northumberland	John C Day	255 - 262
Museum Notes		263 - 272	Presents two notes on: `A stone head from Walker' by Lindsay Allason-Jones (263--5), a `Celtic head' found in 1936 and thought to represent a link between the second-century AD cult of the head and the building of Hadrian's Wall; and `Jet and other materials in Roman artefact studies' by L Allason-Jones & D M Jones (265--72), detailing similar materials including cannel coal, detrital coal, and shales.
A stone head from Walker	Lindsay Allason-Jones	263 - 265
Jet and other materials in Roman artefact studies	Lindsay Allason-Jones David M Jones	265 - 272
Notes		273 - 276
A late Neolithic cremation burial at Lookout Plantation, Northumberland	Jason Monaghan	273 - 274	Details fragments of pottery from a single funerary vessel. The complete object is thought to have resembled an enlarged food vessel in profile. Parallels are drawn with similar examples in northern England and Scotland.
On the trail of the Lonesome Pine-cone	Ian D Caruana	274 - 276	Suggests that the stone from Old Carlisle sold to J Clayton of Chesters in 1870 and recently presumed missing, is in Chesters Museum after all, having been erroneously attributed to Kirkby Thore somewhere along the line.
Richard Pearson Wright MA, FSA, 1908-1992	Charles Manser Daniels	277 - 278
Graham Donald Robson TD, BA, 1925-1993	John Philipson	279 - 280
Book Reviews		281 - 284
M. C. Bishop and J. N. Coulston, Roman Military Equipment	W B Griffiths	281 - 282
C. Clark Ironbridge Gorge	S M Linsley	283 - 284
Books Received		284
Index		285 - 292
Publications (for sale; list)		293