In 1911 a cist burial with skeletal remains and a beaker was found during the ploughing of one of the hills in a field close to Clara Vale Colliery. The cist, orientated east-west, was 3 feet 8 in long x 2 feet 4 in wide at the west end, 1 feet 9 in at the east, and 2 feet 5 in deep. The sides were made of single stone slabs, the floor and top of several pieces. The burial was a contracted inhumation, the remains being of an adult male, with femurs 18 in (45.7 cm) long, and the beaker was found beneath the left arm in the south-east corner of the cist. The vessel, 195 mm high, with a rim diam of 135 mm, was decorated with encircling notched lines in groups of three, divided from one another by notches, herringbone, upright lines of notching, and a trellis pattern. Two plain bands divide the decoration into three zones. The present location of the vessel is obscure, but it may be in the British Museum.

This possible but unproven barrow was first reported in 1952 in a letter from W.A. Cocks to the Ordnance Survey. It is round, flat-topped, without surrounding bank and ditch, 11.10 m in diameter and 1.50 m high, and has trees on it. It is situated low down in the dene of the Bradley Burn on the west side of the stream.

A barrow was opened at Bradley Hall sometime before 1787 and reported in that year. It was found to contain "a square cavity, composed of stones set on edge, which enclosed the remains and ashes of the interred". Later reports describe a skeleton found within the supposed cist. The burial site is thought to have been built on or otherwise destroyed at a later date, perhaps by the construction of an icehouse in the late 18th century.

A flint scraper was found in 1931 near Ryton Ferry, presumably on the south side of the Tyne.

A bronze spearhead, with leaf-shaped blade, was found in a gravel bed opposite Ryton Willows in 1899, and exhibited by the Rev. Johnson Baily, rector of Ryton, at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in June that year. Its length was given as 10 in (253 mm), max. width 2 in (51 mm), length of blade 7.5 in (190 mm) and there were said to be the remains of the wooden shaft in the socket.

On 8 Feb. 1588 John Aubrey conveyed to Ralph Taylboys of Thornton esq. a close of 3 acres in Heworth called Katherine Close, given by Katherine Fawcett for the celebration of mass within the chapelry of Heworth. The chapelry comprised the township of Heworth, and was part of the parish of Jarrow. The chapel itself was taken down in 1821 and replaced, probably on the same site.

There does not seem to be any original source to support the existence of this supposed medieval chapel. Surtees in the 19th century is apparently the first to mention it, saying that St. Anne's Chapel in Winlaton had been destroyed in the rebellion of the earls in 1569, and was, in 1705, replaced on the same site by another. This in turn fell into decay and in 1816 a large schoolroom was built over it.

In 1926-27 flooding of the Tyne scoured the south bank near Ryton, close to Clara Vale, revealing a wooden wheel some 150 yards west of the log-boat found in 1926. It lay on gravel, under 16 feet of alluvial sand and clay. The wheel had a hub 15.5 in long, with an external diameter of 5.75 in, swelling to 8.5 in at the centre where the 9 spokes were inserted. The spokes were 12.5 in long, and the diameter of the whole wheel was 38.75 in. The remains of an iron tyre were visible. The wheel, which could not be preserved intact, was suggested by Piggott as Roman or earlier in date, a product of the Pre-Roman Iron Age tradition.

After the Tyne had been in flood and scoured the south bank near Ryton and Clara Vale in October 1926 a log-boat was found on a gravel layer beneath 16 feet of alluvial clay. It was flat-bottomed, had a bluntly pointed bow and a squared stern, and had been cut out of a single oak log. Its length was recorded as 9 feet 2in (2.75 m), its width 1 feet 10 in (63 cm), and draught originally 1 feet 6 in (46 cm) with 1 in (2.5 cm) thick sides. It was thought to be of Iron Age origin.

On March 11th 1763 workmen discovered an urn with a little dust in it inside a large stone coffin, in which was a skull with the teeth very fresh, and several large bones. It is not known in what part of the grounds the coffin was found, and it is uncertain what became of it. It is assumed that this was probably a prehistoric burial, probably dating to the bronze age (note HER no. 504, a possible barrow in the Park).