"A hoard of more than 5000 Antoniniani, in a pot, was found in 1879, when water pipes were being laid just behind the Roman Wall, below the main road near the site of Milecastle No. 11, at Throckley Bank Top.(3) They were mostly of the decade AD 260-70, the major representations being:- Postumus (454), Victorinus (1678), Claudius Gothicus (696) and Tetricus (424) The hoard was dispersed in small lots by the finder, an Irish labourer, but subsequently some eight hundred or more were acquired by the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle".(4) Though found in Throckley, this is always known as the Walbottle hoard. The cache of Roman coins was apparently found during the construction of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company's filter beds (SMR 4236). It seems likely that the hoard may have been concealed in the Wall ditch {5}. Dated C3.

In 1754 "the mayor and burgesses erected here (in the Manors) on their ground, and at their common expense, an elegant set of apartments for the ...6 unmarried women", daughters or widows of Newcastle burgesses, provided for by Thomas Davison Esq., "under the same roof with those intended for the two former hospitals of Mrs Anne Davison (1725, SMR 1239), and Sir Walter Blackett, Bart". Blackett's hospital also dates from 1754, and was for 6 unmarried men, poor and decayed burgesses of the town. Mackenzie published an engraving which shows the west front of this hospital, a classical 3-storey 9-bay building with slightly projecting central 3-bays beneath a pediment on which is the Newcastle arms. It lay north-south, at right angles to the south-east corner of the Holy Jesus Hospital, and was presumably demolished in or before 1850 to make room for the railway.

In 1736 Bourne wrote, "Towards the Bottom of this Field is another Hospital (i.e. in addition to the Holy Jesus Hospital), erected for six poor Widows of Clergymen and Merchants, which was endowed by the Charity of Mrs Anne Davison, widow of Mr Benjamin Davison, Merchant, and erected by the Corporation of Newcastle, Nathaniel Clayton, Esq; Mayor, Thomas Wasse, Esq; Sheriff. Anno. 1725". On his map this hospital is shown on the west side of the foot of Croft Stairs. It must be supposed that Bourne meant the same institution when he wrote that in 1725 the mayor and burgesses, at the request of the executors, built "a dwelling house, with offices, in the Manors, and conveyed them to Mr Grey, the only surviving executor, who by his deed of 1748 founded the said building an hospital, and appointed...the first governess and five sisters". In 1754 this hospital is rehoused in the new Blackett Davison Hospital. Nothing more is known about the original building.

John Ward(e), a rich merchant, sheriff of Newcastle 1445, mayor 1448 and 1450, founded an almshouse temp. Edward IV for 12 poor men and 12 poor women. It is said to be mentioned in a deed of 1475, and by Leland. In the Milbank MS it is described as the chief almshouse in the town, "the mills at Pandon-Gate should give them...20s p.a. to buy their coals, but old Mr. Brandling pulled off the lead, on purpose to expell the poor people, which he did. The mills are now fallen into one Homer's hands, and so are lost for ever". The date of closure is unknown, but ruins of it were reported to be visible in 18th century. The precise location of the almshouse is uncertain, but it was probably on the south-west side of Manor Chare (2, 3). The letter L on Speed's map presumably indicates it, though vaguely. Dated C15th.

Birtley Fell was a common in the manor of Chester, and was explicitly excluded from the 1794 act for the enclosure of commons in that manor. It was therefore never divided by act. The bishop of Durham was originally the lord of the manor, though he seems to have lost the ownership of the soil to the freeholders in ? C19.(1) The 18th century map (2) shows Birtley Fell stretching from the Wrekendyke (N) to Portobello (S), and hence including Eighton Banks which is normally part of Lamesley township. A narrow tongue stretched W to Birtley village to give access to the fell. The N end of the E boundary is formed by the Pelaw Main wagonway.

"The cropmark of a ring ditch with a central blob - ? barrow" showed NE of the A19/A1231 roundabout N of the River Wear on an air photo taken in 1971. It is not, at the moment, known whether it survives.

From at least the beginning of the 19th century a village existed east of St. Paul's church. The 1808 plan of Simon Temple's estate shows houses arranged round the south, east and north sides of the rough grassed area between the church and the Don (to the east), with another row along the edge of the road north from the bridge. The layout is slightly enlarged on the 1st ed. OS. In 1973/76 C.D. Morris excavated the row of one-room brick cottages which lay west of the end of the bridge, and found them to be late 18th century/early C19. The only medieval structures found were part of the priory. The area was subject to slum clearance in the early 1930s and, according to Morris, then became a chemical waste tip.

At the time of Bishop Walcher's grant in the late C11 Jarrow (Gyrvum) seems to have been a principal vill, with several appendages. It was, however, quite small - in 1345/6 there were 8 named tenants, one being the Master of the cell of Jarrow, paying rent for 9 tofts and 1 cottage. When Hutchinson visited it in 1782 he noted only "two or three mean cottages". Having said this, the actual site of the village to which the documentary references apply is unknown. Was it north of Jarrow Hall, i.e. SMR 1233, and/ or along the road west of the hall, and did it just dwindle away there? Or is it represented by the 18th century/C19 village east of the priory (SMR 1235), and could that be the result of a clearance when the hall was built? Dated C11th.

Excavations in 1989-90 north of Jarrow Hall revealed a "series of ditches and gullies associated with a metalled road with several buildings to either side and a short length of a hollow way, with cart ruts on its surface. Large amounts of 12th-15th century pottery, a bronze brooch and an openwork mount were recovered". Also found were C15 ridge and furrow, and a big ditch, perhaps the monastic enclosure ditch, which contained pottery of the C12-C14. These discoveries were interpreted as part of a village lying close to the medieval priory. Dated C12-15th.

Excavations in 1989-90 north of Jarrow Hall revealed "a series of ditches and gullies cut by post-Conquest features". They were considered to be of Early Medieval date, and were associated "with a fragment of C7-C8 pottery, and a human burial orientated north-south". Dated C7-C8.