"In taking down some old houses at Swalwell, a few years since, four querns were discovered in the foundations...". There is no other information. Miket has decided they are prehistoric, but it as likely that the word "quern" has been misapplied and they were really creeing troughs (mortars).

In 1917 a polished axe was donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle by Mr. G. Forster. He had found it in his garden in Beech Grove, Whickham. "Length 107 mm, width 51 mm, thickness 25 mm. Both faces are badly chipped".

On 24 September, 1889, a quern was "found among the stones used in an ancient wall discovered in preparing the foundations for the new school, close to the parish church". This discovery was duly logged in the school records, and on the following day reported by Mr. J.Robinson to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle. He described is as Roman, but in PSAN there is the cautious comment - "though described as Roman (it) may be of any date". There is no further information about the quern, and its location is unknown.

In January 1899 Mr. R. Newton donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle "a stone axe-hammer", found on the Whaggs estate, Whickham, discovered Aug. 1898". Length 210 mm, max. width 111 mm, max. thickness 76 mm. "In granulite, with hour-glass perforation. Found...associated with a burial".

"Oak log-boat, length 4.27 m, breadth 0.91 m. Rounded bow in all three planes, and rounded transverse section. Slot at rear for transom. Starboard edge is worked, with a vertical hole in it, probably where a transverse member was trenailed to both sides of the sheer for lateral strength and to act as a thwart". "...on the 17th July (1912), while the excavation of the foreshore was proceeding, prior to the foundations of the new (West Dunston) staiths being put in, the contractor came across the end of a submerged 'dug-out' buried in the silt and sand, lying about five feet below the bed of the river...and about 12 feet below high water". It was presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in 1912, and in 1952 the OS noted it as "recorded as surviving in one of the Black Gate guardrooms in a poor state of preservation". Miket recorded it as lost. Heslop suggests that the log boat survived because it was buried in the river bed when it was dry or reduced by seasonal drought and that it was a votive offering in the same tradition as the deposition of metal objects in the preceding Bronze Age.

There are spasmodic references to the manor of Lamesley from 1288, when Bishop Bec granted Sir John Fitz-Marmaduke free warren in the demesne lands of the manors of Lamesley and Ravensworth, to 1498, when Isabel, heir of Bertram Lumley, was confirmed in possession of the two manors and other lands. In 1472 the i.p.m. of William Lumley recorded he died seised of "the manor of Lamesely, containing 60 acres arable, 50 acres pasture, 10 acres meadow, 40 acres wood, and of 4 husbandlands in Eghton', parcel of the manor, containing 60 acres arable, 1 acre meadow, 50 acres pasture... The manor held of the bishop by suit to the county court of Durham every quindene".Dated C13th.

The earliest, if unenlightening, reference is in Boldon Buke (1183 survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset). "Birtley and Tribley render 20s, and attend the great chase with 2 greyhounds". According to Surtees the Birtleys held the manor of Birtley for several generations, but by the time of Hatfield's Survey (1382) the vill was held by Lord Nevill, and Gilbert Eglyne, who had married a Birtley heiress, on the same terms as above. It was not, at that time, an important centre and was listed under Kibblesworth. The village lay close to and parallel with the east side of the old Great North Road, a rather curious situation. Roberts and Austin describe it as having an irregular two-row plan with green. Dated C12th.

Jervoise quotes Hutchinson as saying there is a record of repairs to "Lamesley-brig" over the Team as early as 1428. Certainly in 1431 Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham, granted an indulgence for the repair of Lamesley Brigg over the water of Tame. Dated C15th.

"Lamesley formed the second Prebend in the collegiate Church of Chester founded in 1286. The Chapel is named as already existing in the foundation Charter: on the dissolution a slight provision was reserved for a perpetual Curate…The Chapel is entirely modern, and was rebuilt in 1759".(2) There are said to be remains of medieval window masonry in the bays on the north side of the exterior of the church, and 2 medieval grave covers inside, one in the chancel, the other near the lectern. The medieval church was ruinous by 1740, and was rebuilt in 1759 (see HER 8185). Dated C13th.

In the early C13 Geoffrey son of Geoffrey, who already possessed a mill(1) at Lamesley, granted John son of Adam de Ravensworth a place on which to build a mill(2) on the Team north of the vill of Lamesley, and a right of way to the mill from the Lamesley-Gateshead road. In the mid C13 Alexander Redehou granted Geoffrey the pond of his mill(1) of Lamesley upon his (Alexander's) land of Kibblesworth called Yerhau. Later in the C13 there was an agreement to build a common mill in Lamesley, and another reference apparently to (2). In 1466 Dompeir and Tyrle mills were part of the marriage settlement of Bartram Lumley and his wife, and the former is included in a grant of 1480. A mill in Lameseledale in the tenure of Nicholas Turpyn was granted to Agnes Radclyff by Bertram Lumley in 1487. Dated C13th.