There is supposed to have been a cross on Ryton village green before the erection of one in 1795. This date appears on a plinth 1 m square set on a base of 3 shallow stone steps. The stone cross noted on the O.S. card seems to have been replaced by "a modern pillar and cross dated 1951". Was it originally a market cross? It was not noted by either Hutchinson or Surtees.

A cross socket, said by the Ordnance Survey to consist of a sandstone block 0.7m square, with a socket 0.2m x 0.15m. It is assumed to be the base of a cross on the boundary of Billy Mill Moor, also the boundary between Long Benton and the liberty of Tynemouth priory. A late 17th century description described it as: "...and so north-west to a stand with a hole in it, wherein, as it should seem, hath stood a cross; and from thence directly to Backworth dicke [dyke]...". The location is taken from the modern map.
NB see site assessment field for a description of the position of the stone: it is marked on the OS first edition map in this position, and on the OS second edition map as part of an administrative boundary. A 'Stone' marked to the northwest is probably a remnant of Holystone Farm and spurious.
Reported in 2020 as buried in situ by the farmer in 1982, see file.

Hutchinson, writing in 1787, noted the cross - "...by the road side is a stone column, but of what event it is a memorial, history or tradition give no account". In 1820 Surtees described it as "a plain shaft and pedestal", and reported the common tradition "that when Newcastle in the reign of Elizabeth was infected with the plague, the country people left their provisions at this place". In late19th century the shaft was described as octagonal, the base as square, and it was "known as the 'butter cross'". In Pevsner's Durham (1953) 'butter' had been transmogrified into 'Butler', and so it remains, "a tall polygonal stone shaft with a Maltese cross head (date uncertain)". O.S. describes it as "a tall octagonal shaft with head and arms of apparently later date. The shaft is set into a square socket stone which rests on 3 octagonal layers of stones...", and reports that it stood at NZ 2323 5934 until it was moved to its present position in 1942. The earlier O.S. card gives dimensions.

A narrow (c. 7 ft) twin-arched bridge across the Ouse Burn. Originally called Raundelsbrygge. It could be of 4 periods, + recent repairs, the earliest period being medieval or, as has been suggested, C14. Period 1. N half of E arch. Pointed, with 3 square ribs. Medieval. Period 2. N half of W arch. Segmental. Date uncertain. Period 3. The whole of the S half, when the bridge was widened. Period 4. The parapets,though GMcC thought they were of different dates. Pointed cutwater on upstream (N) side, its top part missing. Rectangular recess reconstructed above it. Base of pointed cutwater survives on S side. The abutment on the N side, E bank, is of 2 periods. Salter's Bridge and nearby Salter's Road (HER 4261) suggest that this was the route taken by pack horses as they plied their trade from the salt pans on the coast bridge. Medieval and later. Coursed squared sandstone. 2 arches; the northern half of the eastern arch has broad ribs, and is pointed and recessed in chamfered surround; southern half and the western arch are segmental. North central pointed cutwater with square refuge in parapet above; low south cutwater with pilaster above to parapet. Steeply chamfered parapet copings.
Sources: M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland, vol. XII, 1930 p. 333, E. Jervoise The Ancient Bridges of the North of England (1931); reprint 1973 pp 32-3. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. Dated C14th.
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There is no secure evidence for the date of the tower. Bates plumps for C15, NCH suggests Bertram Anderson ("of Burradon", 1553) may have built it. The tower measures 25 ft 3 in x 22 ft 6in, and is 3 storeys high. It has the remains of a parapet on a corbel table, and machicolations over the east door. The ground floor is vaulted, and has a north loop. A newel stair in the SE angle gives access to the upper floors. On the first floor, in the SW angle, there was a garderobe, and a secondary fireplace (with initials of Lancelot Ogle, and date 1633 on the lintel) in E wall. Also perhaps C17 are the remains of a 3-light window in the S wall. Lumps of the E and W walls have fallen out. By the C19, after it had become part of the adjoining farm, there had been further alterations. By the early 20th century it stood alone, ruinous and neglected. One of the most southerly towers in Northumberland. Dated C15-16th.

The chapel was sited on the east side of the north end of Tyne Bridge. Because it was dedicated to St. Thomas Becket it presumably post-dated his murder in 1170; though the earliest reference to it is 1248 it was probably late C12. The master of the chapel was usually also the keeper of the bridge. There are said to have been 3 chantries in the chapel, and 3 cellars beneath it. In 1611 it was annexed to the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, and in 1732, after being "lately beautified and pewed", it became a chapel of ease to St. Nicholas. It was twice reduced in size in the late 18th century to improve access to the bridge, and was finally demolished in the late 1820s/30s because it obscured traffic. It is possible that some of the stonework in the basement of Watergate Building is medieval, and therefore part of the chapel. A ribbed arch of the medieval Tyne Bridge can still be reached from the cellar of the Watergate building which replaced the chapel after its demolition for road widening. St Thomas' church at Barras Bridge was built by John Dobson in 1827-30 to replace the medieval chapel.
"Old stones, intersecting parts of tracery from one of the windows of the old chapel on the Sandhill, pulled down many years ago" were donated to the Society of Antiquaries by Edward Spoor on 3 May, 1854. Dated C12th.

Lay on line of Swing Bridge; traditionally supposed to have been built over Roman bridge after fire of 1248. Roman base now questioned, and - in view of the dedication of the chapel to St. Thomas Becket (d. 1170) - it is probably late C12. Demolished after being damaged in the flood of 1771. Said to have been 560 ft, or 12 arches, long, of which 3 were cellars by 18th century. On it, at S end, was a tower with portcullis and drawbridge, in centre a tower with portcullis, and at N end the magazine, a C17 gate tower. The Blue Stone marked the boundary on the bridge between Newcastle and the Palatinate of Durham. Houses were built on the bridge, though just when is uncertain. One complete land arch survives under Swing Bridge; a ribbed arch of a second exists in basement of Watergate Buildings (pers comm Frank Manders). Surviving arch under Swing Bridge is described as 44 ft wide with a span of 21 feet. 9 chamfered ribs, 3 upstream arch rings & tops of piers remain visible of original fabric; later widened on both sides. Known as pons Tyne (c. 1200), pons aque de Tyna (1290-1). John Stephenson built a temporary wooden bridge after the 1771 flood. Messrs Smeaton, Wooler and Robert Mylne built a new stone bridge 1775-1781 which cost over £30,000. In 1801, David Stephenson widened the Tyne Bridge. Part of bridge. Medieval and later. Sandstone. 2 land arches, part of one visible, the remainder obscured by later building; reached from cellar of Watergate Buildings. The eastern part has 5 wide ribs; the western part, a triple-chamfered arch, has 4 closely-spaced ribs. A scheduled ancient monument. Dated C12th.

Rectilinear ditched enclosure. MPP classification: Enclosure ? / Rectilinear / ? / ? / Straight sides 2 / Corner curved / Ditch 1 / Length ? / Breadth ? / Masked / ? / ? "Part of the north and west sides of a rectilinear, single-ditched, crop-mark enclosure…no typological opinion given".(4) A 20m x 1.5m trench was excavated on the former site of Burradon doctor's surgery in January 2004 to check whether the rectilinear enclosure extended into the site. No evidence for this feature was found, presumably meaning that the northern arm of the enclosure turned south some distance to the west of the development site.

Rectilinear ditched enclosure. MPP classification: Enclosure / Rectilinear / Symmetric / Square ? / Straight sides 3 / Convex side 1 ? / Corners curved / Ditch 1 / Length 61 m / Breadth 61 m / Complete ? / Internal features none / Entrance 1 ? (terminal defined, E aspect). "A rectangular single-ditched crop-mark enclosure with sides about 200 ft long (deduced from photography). It has slightly rounded corners, an east facing entrance…".(4) I do not feel wholly confident about this interpretation of the E side and entrance. O.S. suggested this was an R.B. settlement. Transcribed from the AP onto a modern map base in 2003. The enclosure measured c52m x 48m.

"Part of a neolithic axe-head of flint or chert covered by a thick grey white patina. There are slight lateral facets and the implement has been broken sometime in antiquity". "...only the part carrying the blade surviving. Max. surviving length 65 mm, width 51 mm, thickness 26 mm". "At present (1970) this is the only axe-head recorded from the heavy clays in this area of south east Northumberland, the nearest being South Shields and Jarrow to the south, Westerhope to the west and Morpeth to the north. Recovered from the bottom silt in the enclosure ditch of the homestead (SMR 306) and presumably a stray".