Westgate Road, bronze bowl

HER Number

11948

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Westgate Road, bronze bowl

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Bowl

General Period

UNCERTAIN

Specific Period

Uncertain

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Bronze bowl, period unknown. Made of a thin sheet of light bronze hammered into a bowl shape. Similar to that dredged from the River Tyne at Newburn (HER 626). Dimensions: 14 1/2 inches in diameter, 4 inches high and rim 1/2 inch wide. Found 25th February 1891 whilst rebuilding the property of Mr William Angus at the back of Westgate Street.

Easting

424355

Northing

564065

Grid Reference

NZ424355564065

Sources

Museum of Antiquities 1891.4; Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2, V, 1893, p 10; Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XV, 1892, p 7