Croft Street, cobbler's waste

HER Number

11962

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Croft Street, cobbler's waste

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Town Defences

Site Type: Specific

Animal Remains

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A few scraps of wood and leather offcuts were preserved in the waterlogged bastion ditch fill, which was excavated in 1989. Stray pieces of cobbler's waste including several fragments of narrow, square-toed shoe soles. One piece of wood had been worked.

Easting

425100

Northing

564400

Grid Reference

NZ425100564400

Sources

J. Vaughan, 1993, 'Miscellaneous' in J. Nolan et al 'The Town Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne'