Tyne and Wear HER(7849): Lemington Gut, quay walls - Details
7849
Newcastle
Lemington Gut, quay walls
Lemington
NZ16SE
Water Supply and Drainage
Water Regulation Installation
Flood Defences
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Structure
Quay walls survive well between the site of the staithes, adjacent to the ironworks managers house and a point immediately south-east of the ironworks (approx. NZ 1847 eastwards to NZ 1866 6447). These walls probably pre-date the construction of a channel across Blaydon Haugh by the Tyne Improvement Commission in the 1850s which created the Gut and led to a waning of industrial development at Lemington (the ironworks already being closed/in decline by this time). The Gut survives as a silted cul-de-sac of the Tyne, preserving the quayside walls alodn with fragmentary remains of staithes and, probably, sunken boats in its silt.
418660
564470
NZ418660564470
The Archaeological Practice, 1999, Newburn Haugh: Archaeological Assessment, pp.28, 36 & 41. Unpublished report for WSP Environmental; Scott Wilson, 2010, Scotswood Road, Lemington - Archaeological Assessment