Closegate Bottle Works, The Close

HER Number

5076

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Closegate Bottle Works, The Close

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Glassmaking Site

Site Type: Specific

Bottle Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Glass waste including cyclinder edge pieces, offcuts from quarry cutting, glaziers waste was found west of the town wall during excavations at Close Gate in 1989.

Easting

424830

Northing

563550

Grid Reference

NZ424830563550

Sources

<< HER 5076 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1850; Fraser, R., Maxwell, R. & Vaughan, J.E., forth. 'Excavation adjacent to Close Gate, Newcastle, 1988-89', (page proofs).