Jesmond Dene, Busy Cottage Mill, mill pond

HER Number:
5683

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Jesmond Dene, Busy Cottage Mill, mill pond

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Pond

Site Type: Specific:
Mill Pond

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
Mill pond to north of Busy Cottage Corn Mill (HER 4137). Still visible as a slight earthwork. Must have been used as a rubbish tip when it went out of use, as bottles have been found in the fill, along with clinker presumably from the ironworks (HER 5680).

Easting:
2618

Northing:
6633

Grid Reference:
NZ26186633

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5683 >> Pers. Comm. Jesmond Dene Rangers, 2004; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2010, Millfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Excavation