Byron's Quay is shown marked by an 'x' on Burleigh and Thompson's 'Plan of the mouth of the River Wear' 1737. This was one of the results of the River Wear Commission's work to improve the Wear. The Commission was founded by Act of Parliament in 1717 to manage the port's wharves, staithes, ballast quays and river channels, to allow the tide freer flow and improve navigation.

Samuel Buck's 'Perspective and Ichnography of the town of Sunderland, 1720' shows numerous buildings dotted along the shore and escarpment. One of these is associated with a large slipway, probably the boatyard of Thomas Burn, first recorded on Monkwearmouth Shore in 1690.

The Dinnington Hoard, which was found when a pond was being dug in a private garden. The Hoard consists of one aureus of Vitellius (AD 69) and six silver denarii dating from 32-31 BC to AD 81-96. The aureus is in remarkably good condition. No trace was found of a container and this suggests the coins were in a leather or cloth bag. The date of the coins implies that the Hoard was dropped or deposited around the time of the Agricolan advance into Scotland. Dinnington lies in a direct line north from the ford crossing the River Tyne near the Hadrianic fort of Benwell. This was the first safe crossing place of the river before the Roman bridge (Pons Aelius) was built at Newcastle upon Tyne and it is presumed that this ford was used during Agricola’s sorties north. The gold aureus is a rare issue. Vitellius was emperor for only eight months and, unusually, the coin depicts Vitellius’s children on the reverse. Gold coins of Roman date are very rare finds in the Military Zone . They were also used to pay bonuses to soldiers on the accession of a new emperor, in this case possibly the accession of Domitian.
Aureus:
Vitellius, AD 69
obv. A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP TR P rev. LIBER[I] IMP GERMAN (Confronting, bare headed busts of Vitellius' children) Diameter: 20.32mm, Thickness: 2.08mm, Weight: 7.1g.
Denarii:
Antony, 32-31 BC
obv. [ANT AVG III VIR R P C] ship rev. Illegible (eagle & standards) 2. Diameter: 18.03mm, Thickness: 1.66mm, Weight: 3.2g.
Vespasian, AD 69-79
obv. IMP CAES VESP AVG P M rev. TRI POT (Vesta, seated l., holding simpulum) Diameter: 18.88mm, Thickness: 2.04mm, Weight: 2.4g.
Obv. [IMP CAESAR] VESPASIANVS AVG Rev. [PON MAX] TRP COS V (Winged Caduceus) Diameter: 17.72mm, Thickness: 2.15mm, Weight: 2.7g.
Third coin inscription not recorded/readable. Diameter: 18.34mm, Thickness: 2.00mm, Weight: 2.7g.
Uncertain Flavian, AD 69-81 1
obv. Illegible (head of Vespasian or Titus) Rev. illegibe. Diameter: 19.52mm, Thickness: 1.78mm, Weight: 3.0g.
Domitian, AD 81-96 1
obv. IMP CAES DOM[IT AVG GE]RM P M TRP XIII Rev. [IMP XXII COS]XVI CENS P P P (Minerva fighting r.) Diameter: 18.36mm, Thickness: 1.82mm, Weight: 2.0g.
The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Treasure case tracking number: 2016T253
Dated C1 BC-C1.

WallQuest excavations in 2014-2015 revealed 50% of the total footprint of the bath house of Segedunum Roman fort. The bath house dates to the Hadrianic period having first being built to a distinctive plan also known at Benwell, Chesters, Carrawburgh, Netherby and Bewcastle. The plan was then amended so the rooms were in a block arrangement allowing bathers to circulate around the building. This design has not been seen elsewhere.
The baths were situated 130m from the fort in order to take advantage of a water supply. It is thought that the construction of the Wall, fort and baths were all envisaged from the outset and planned as a whole. At some point in the Hadrianic period the bath building was rebuilt in a different form possibly due to a landslip. The baths were redesigned to hang on the south-east face of the stream valley. The baths went out of use by the end of the third century and was left to ruin. Dated C2.

A penannular ring-ditch excavated ahead of development typically associated with late prehistoric/Romano-British roundhouses, many of which have been recorded in the wider area. There are known settlements nearby at Wideopen, Hazelrigg, and Brunton. It was common for the settlements to comprise multiple roundhouses, indicating several contemporary structures and/or several phases of construction. These were often periodically enclosed with ditches or palisades. An apparently isolated unenclosed roundhouse was recently recorded at Great Park, although this may have been peripheral to a larger settlement known as Hazlerigg South. The roundhouse at Kenton Bankfoot could also have been part of a larger nearby community.
Five possible postholes were recorded in close proximity to the roundhouse. One of the postholes was internal, and may have helped to support the roof. Three of the postholes were in rough alignment either side of the entrance, suggesting another structure, perhaps a fence line. The entrance was on the north side. Pottery fragments recovered from two of the postholes, including the internal posthole, are probably of Iron Age or Romano-British date. Spelt wheat chaff from another posthole and from the ring-ditch is also typical of these periods. A grape pip from the ring-ditch may indicate a Roman date as grape has been noted in Roman deposits in northern England previously.

Shown on First Edition OS plan. The building complex was accessible via an unnamed road to the south. There was an L-shaped main building with a possible gingang to in north. A smaller, Z-shaped building was located to the north-east of it. In 1968 it still retained its original shape. Demolished soon afterwards during the development of the new Killingworth township. Each stone of the farmstead was numbered and rebuilt as a public house and community room. The public house was recorded in 2017 ahead of its demolition.

The buildings which make up 27 Rutherford Street were built in several
phases of construction in the early twentieth-century. Atom House, a commercial property which occupies the northern block of the site, first appears by 1927 and was later extended in 1932 to create Atom House as it stands today with some alterations and additions including air-raid shelters in the late 1930s. The former Bradford Bros. Garage built in 1920 occupied the southern block of the site and appears to have been merged into being part of Atom House when the garage was no longer operating, though an exact date for this could not be determined. The air-raid shelters built in 1939 appear to have been blocked off in the recent past with areas of modern brickwork present in the area where the access to the shelters was believed to be. Very few details of any note survived within the building. Recorded in 2017 ahead of proposed demolition.

Archaeological deposits comprising ditches, pits postholes and structures cut into the natural subsoil were excavated here in 2016-2017. These indicate the presence of a large enclosure containing later prehistoric and Romano-British settlement activity, with the life of the settlement extending into at least the 2nd century AD. This enclosure had an entrance on the eastern side, and was subdivided by an internal ditch, demarking a smaller area in the north-eastern corner. This subdivided area appears to have been used for the domestic focus of the settlement, with no significant archaeological remains noted to the west, outside this area. The ditch of the main enclosure clearly needed frequent maintenance, and had been multiply recut.
At least two connected phases of occupation can be suggested from the presence of ring gullies, presumed to be related to roundhouse structures in the subdivided north-eastern area. These ring gullies were investigated in three separate locations, with a potential fourth positioned to the south. Evidence of domestic activity was identified in the location of one of these presumed roundhouses, with pits and hearths excavated inside the arc of the ring gullies. Further evidence of settlement activity, in the form of pits and postholes, was exposed near the remaining two roundhouse locations, and across the wider area.
The small assemblage of pottery, animal bone, briquetage, and other items shown that the settlement was one of some potential wealth, consuming Roman tablewares and products such as olive oil and (possibly) wine, and with the inhabitants having time for leisure activities such as game-playing. Although the remainder of the site has been previously destroyed by the construction of the A19 to the south-west, the surviving elements indicate that the settlement was probably one of reasonable status and longevity.
The occupation sequence may be summarised as:
c.800-200 BC: Early-mid Iron Age activity on the site represented by a small pit, palisaded enclosure and small circular structure.
c.200-100 BC: Mid-late Iron Age replacement of palisade with ditched enclosure containing roundhouse plots. Subsequent rebuilding of principal dwelling and alterations to enclosure entrance.
c.150 AD: Abandonment.

Possible enclosure identified on Google Earth imagery in 2002, 2008, 2015.

Cookson, citing Mitchell states that "a flock of up to 200 sheep is recalled in the area still called Sheepfolds". The sheepfold probably dates to the medieval period. By the end of the 14th century a substantial amount of land owned by the monastery had been rented out to tenants. The remainder of monastic land was worked by local labour, employed by the monks to grow crops. Buck's map of 1720 shows an irregular shaped field which survives into the 18th century. Sheep may have been corralled together in the enclosure to be washed in the river or transported across the river by the Panns Ferry. Dated C14th.