A photograph dated c.1880 [NCLLS 3985] shows three large oblong stones set into the ground between the road and quay wall east of City Farm, on a north-south alignment described as "The Three Stones marking the line of the Roman Wall's crossing". The photograph has an accompanying quotation from MacKenzie's History of Newcastle which says that the Roman Wall crossed the site of Mr Beckington's steam mill at the Ouseburn opposite to which three Roman ashalr stones were built into the quay to indicate its course. A further caption states that these three stones were moved and fixed on edge of quay-wall. The North of England Excavation Committee examined the stones in 1928 and concluded that they were modern mason dressed stones. The site of these stones is now heavily overgrown.

The earliest reference to this feature is 1549 when it formed part of the Newcastle-Byker boundary, though as a river crossing it is likely to have been established at a much earlier date.

A small bowl-like pit was found in an evaluation trench at Throckley Middle School in July 2002. It measured 60cm x 50cm and was 20cm deep. Its primary fill was greenish sandy silt with flecks of charcoal. An assemblage of Late Bronze Age pottery was recovered from this deposit along with a flint tool. The 18 sherds of pottery were examined by Steve Willis of Durham University, who concluded that the fabric is consistent with material found at Hastings Hill in Sunderland. The surface is orange brown and the interior black. No trace of sooting. No trace of decoration. The material is from a handmade vessel, probably a large jar-shaped vessel or cauldron. Its diameter was circa 350 metres. The flint flake or thermal pebble fragment was examined by Barry John Bishop of Durham University. It is of matt, very light grey, cherty flint. It measures 40 metres x 29 metres x 13 metres. The scalar flaking or retouch is rather crude but suggests that it was used as a convex scraper-type tool. It is suggestive of a later prehistoric date, probably post-dating the EBA and certainly compatible with the LBA pottery recovered from the same pit. It is considered probable that this is an isolated feature, possibly not associated with extensive settlement remains.

A lease of 1320 refers to 'Salterford', a ford on the Salters road. Evidence for salt production in this area is also recorded in court rolls of 1561 and 1588 and a survey of 1573 - Saltersford/Salterfoode, Saltman pythe, Salter's peth. The Salters ford was found where Hartley Lane now crosses the Brierdene Burn to the south of the Beehive public house. The salt pans lay near the mouth of Holywell Dene. The "hie wai" or common street linking Hartley and Backworth, already ancient in the late 16th century, appears also to have been synonymous with the "Saltman pythe" (peth) which led to the ford ("Fysher foorde"). A short length of hollow way on the south-east side of the bridge may be all that remains to mark its course.

Remains of a hexagonal pillbox in a back garden.

During a field reconnaissance survey in 1992, a number of upper and lower stones of rotary querns were noted in the garden of Holywell Grange Farm. These originated from the adjacent IA/RB farmstead (HER 745 and 4834). The then owner had also amassed a small collection of stone balls collected from the surrounding fields. A similar item retrieved from a trench cut for a gas pipeline in Holywell/Earsdon before 1973 has been interpreted as a Roman ballista ball. However this type of artefact has also been found from native contexts north of the border and they are not especially suggestive of a Roman military presence in the study area.

The park was donated in 1897. The main entrance is on Canning Street. It had tennis courts and glasshouses to the east and the grounds of Hebburn Infirmary on the left. A memorial to the men who fell in the Boer War 1899-1902 was built on a mound adjacent to the Dell. The space is divided with small groves of trees and lawns leading towards a larger lawn where a monument was situated, the drinking fountain was at a junction of winding paths. Looking south the islands of trees provided a backdrop to the bandstand and a huge lawn on the south west. It appears the park was designed to give plenty of spatial diversions. Access was available to Hebburn Cemetery. Three bowling greens were positioned west of the vicarage. Cuthbert Ellison died in 1868 and left his estates to his nephew Ralph Carr. In 1897 the Carr Ellison family gave a large proportion of the grounds of Hebburn Hall (HER 1951) to the community of Hebburn for a park. In 1920 Colonel Carr-Ellison donated a war memorial for the park. The gate piers may be contemporary with the hall but the gates and railings are later. An area described as a fishpond on the 1854 Ordnance Survey remains as the dell. It may have been a small pleasure garden. The dell contains a number of retaining walls and a network of paths and steps set under trees. Attempts at restoration and adaptation have made the area difficult to interpret. The most dominant feature is a tier of three walls, the highest curves up on either side to a ball finial. Terraces, retained by stone walls curve round the south side of a mound. Steps lead down to a flat open area - the former pond? The paths divert into little walled semicircular alcoves. Hebburn Hall had a very large walled garden to the west. The Carrs and Ellisons were great gardeners and when Carr moved to Cheshire circa 1740 he wrote a letter concerning gardening and mentioned the Ashton pear which he had discovered and was sending to be planted at Hebburn. LOCAL LIST

Drinking fountain. Dated 1894; resited from St. Nicholas Square in early 20th century. Erected by the Band of Hope Union in memory of J.H. Rutherford. Sandstone steps, red sandstone fountain with pink granite basin. Octagonal. Renaissance style. Panelled plinth supports nosed octagonal basin with moulded, fluted pedestal to tall central column. Taps, fittings removed, in pedimented panels with inscription on entablature. Inscriptions JHR and WATER IS BEST on shields in panels. The fountain is octagonal and of red sandstone and extremely ornate in character. The drinking trough of polished pink granite and the water faucets appear to bronze but with a recently applied coating. The fountain is surmounted by a series of finials which have been replaced in terracotta owing to the near impossibility of cutting replacements in stone. The last remaining stone finial is now broken. At the apex of the cap a stainless steel finial has been mounted. The fountain was resited near the underground public toilets in the Bigg Market in 1901 and moved to its present location in 1998 with the financial support of Northumbrian Water. LISTED GRADE 2

Drinking fountain circa 1901. Signed by Marshall and Tweedy, architects and W. Donaldson, sculptor. In memory of W.D. Stephen 1827-1901, mayor and sheriff of Newcastle, promoter of maritime commerce and temperance and the welfare of the poor. Erected by public subscription. Sandstone ashlar and pink granite with bronze roundel; cast iron railings. Tall sandstone panel, with scrolled date panel in broken pediment, has garland swags to pediment and to flanking high obelisks on deeply moulded plinths. Low flat-coped walls at each side have iron balustrades. Granite basin beneath inscription in main panel with round plaque. The panel above the inscription was clearly intended for the display of a sculpted ornament, probably the bronze roundel identified in the List description. There is now no trace of the roundel. The fixing holes have been filled with concrete. LISTED GRADE 2

Complex design with basins at three levels executed in polished pink granite with a ball finial to the pillar surmounted by a decorative wrought iron feature. There is an inscription carved into one side of the base. There is a bronze faucet which has been vandalised and which has been blanked off by a crude steel plate screwed to the pillar. The ground level has been raised by a rough concrete surround. LOCAL LIST