Lemington Gut, quay walls

HER Number:
7849

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Lemington Gut, quay walls

Place:
Lemington

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Regulation Installation

Site Type: Specific:
Flood Defences

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19?

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
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.

Easting:
1866

Northing:
6447

Grid Reference:
NZ18666447

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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 Unpublished report for WSP Environmental; Scott Wilson, 2010, Scotswood Road, Lemington - Archaeological Assessment