When the Hat and Feather Inn, Low Row, was rebuilt, a stretch of paved roadway was found c. 12 feet below street level. "Within a few feet of the ancient pavement was also found among the loose stones an ancient Quern (now in the possession of this Society), of millstone grit, fifteen inches wide and six inches in diameter, with bowl eight inches wide and three-and-a-half inches deep. At the bottom of the bowl is an iron spike or pivot, by which the upper stone was kept in position as it was turned round in the process of grinding the corn or grain". The O.S. adds, first, that the Inn's predecessor was demolished in 1902, and secondly that the quern is medieval and in Sunderland Museum.

"Recently during the rebuilding of the ancient 'Hat and Feather' Inn, Low Row, a licensed house which has existed for upwards of 200 years, the contractors came upon some interesting remains of antiquity. At a depth of about twelve feet below the level of the present street, on that portion of the building which was the Inn yard, and adjoining the disused burial ground of Bishopwearmouth Church, a section of an ancient roadway was brought to light. The pavement was...of cobble stones, in a splendid state of preservation. At the same depth, and close to the ancient pavement, were the thick walls of what had been the boundary or retaining wall of the burn. The rush of water may yet be heard...".
Mr A.A. Bell of Sunderland claims in the 1970s to have seen the corner of a Roman mosaic in the cellar of what was Bell's Cycles (part of Victoria Buildings HER 11067 and same block as the Hat and Feather, now Green's Public House HER 4476). The mosaic apparently lay 18 inches below the cellar floor. The digger driver who dug out the cellar floor claimed to have seen decorated border tiles and what looked like the hem of a gown. He also claimed to have found a second mosaic outside the police station when the roundabout was being built. Mr Bell claims that in the 1960s gas workers found another paved road near to the Empire Theatre at a depth of 12 feet. Unfortunately no archaeologist was called out at the time to inspect the findings and no record or photographs exist to prove or disprove these finds.

"Coin of Constantinius II (337-361) found at 74 Hastings Street, Sunderland. In possession of W Scott, 10 Capetown Rd, Hylton Castle". Information derived from Sunderland Museum. Dated C4.

"Two Constantinian coins found opposite Roker Park Road South (the seaward end) in a garden below an octagonal bus shelter 1935. Now lost". Information derived from the Sunderland Museum Accession Register, which recorded C Burke 45 Bede St, Roker, as the original informant. Dated C4.

"Coin of Constantine I (307-37) found circa 1958, at the now demolished Durham District Omnibus garages, by Mrs. H. McCririe, 10 Worcester terrace, Sunderland. In Sunderland Museum 1963". Information derived from Sunderland Museum record. Find spot appears quite close to the shore. Dated C4.

'"AE 3 found on Hendon beach 1961". (Presumably Roman)'. Information derived from Sunderland Museum.

"Coin of Postumus (258-267) found in 1965". Information from Sunderland Museum Accession Register. The find spot appears to be close to the high tide mark, but the nature of the shore at this point is not known. Dated C3.

"According to local tradition Galley Gill marks the place where Danish invaders found shelter for their vessels when plundering our district in remote ages. When the Lambton Coal Staiths were made, the remains of a Danish galley were discovered embedded in the ground at the base of the limestone cliff in the old Gill".

When the Quakers moved their headquarters from High Street to Nile Street in 1822/3 they opened a new burying ground immediately north of the new meeting house, along the west side of the houses fronting the west side of Nile Street. This cemetery was in use between 1823 and 1 May 1856 (or 1857?), when it was closed by Order in Council. The ground stretched over 530 yards, though the area used for interments was 184 feet x 34 feet. The graves were 9 feet for adults, 7 feet for children. In 1850 the Society agreed to place stones over the graves with names in full and date of death inscribed on them. From 1858 the Quakers used the Chester Road (Bishopwearmouth) Cemetery.

The Quakers built a meeting house at the corner of Nile Street and Borough Road in 1822 or 1823 to succeed the earlier one in High Street. It survived until c.1976. Its burying ground existed on its north side until 1856 or 1857, and other buildings came to be arranged around it - library, lecture room, women's meeting room, caretaker's cottage. On the adjacent site to the west in 1859 the Quakers built a school which, with later alterations, still stands. Red brick, five-bay front with three-bay pediment. Late-19th century extensions include, S of the meeting-house, a circular committee room, octagonal externally, with a domed roof, and to the N a hall, beyond a caretaker’s house of two storeys, built c1822. The whole complex was surrounded by a tall brick boundary wall.