There is a cup and ring motif carved into the bedrock of the northern tributary of the Wallsend Burn called Wallsend Dene. When the dene is in spate the rock is under water. There is another motif about 10m away. Unfortunately these are not ancient rock art. Ian Hobson, a rock art enthusiast from Newcastle made them around 2000 using a carpenter's chisel. He has made similar markings at Cobalt Business Park and Rising Sun Country Park.

A small brick air raid shelter with reinforced concrete roof attached to a garage to the rear of No. 47 Durham Road. Measures 2.45m by 2.95m in plan and is 2m high. There is one door but no ventilation slits. An internal door leads into the garage. Demolished in 2009.

A large cup-and-ring marked stone was spotted on an old sofa near the driveway of Hollinside Farm on 29 November 2007. The stone has been slightly moved in November 2009. No one seems to know where the slab came from.

There were guns on the end of the piers. At the end of Roker Pier just beneath the lighthouse, there is a concrete structure. NAA suggest that this was an anti-motor torpedo boat battery. All that survives is a concrete platform with no entrance. A photograph of the structure taken soon after the war shows some form of storage bays to the front of the lighthouse, but these no longer stand. Further research is required. No information was found in Tyne and Wear Archives or Durham Record Office.

There was a submarine net over the harbour at Sunderland during the Second World War.

Large timber boat recorded by Alan Williams, archaeologist and Paddy Taylor, archaeology student at Newcastle University.

Abandoned vessels, one a particularly large boat, are visible in the mud at low tide in Northumberland Dock near to Royal Quays. Parts of the old timber dock survives also.

A Second World War trench is visible as earthworks on air photographs. It is centred at NZ 4004 5452 and comprises a zig zag trench and a flanking line of spoil.

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05-AUG-1986 Wreckage, possibly of a fishing vessel, located and dived
on in approx 20 to 30ft of water - it lies close to St Mary's Light
House, Whitely Bay.

1917 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Cullercoats Harbour while en route from Blyth for Fredrikstad with coal. Built in 1890, she was a steel screw steamer. Depth: 4-7 metres
Reference: N 55 02.343 W 001 25.472
Brown's Bay, Cullercoats

The BUTETOWN was a steel 1,594-ton British steamship that was registered in London and had a length of 75m. She was built as the COOKHAM at Milford Haven by J R Oswald & Co. in 1890 for the Lambert Brothers, who owned her until 1904, when she was sold to W Cory. In 1916 she joined the Townline Co. Ltd. of London, who were the owners at the time of loss. Her single steel propeller was powered by a three-cylinder, triple-expansion steam engine that used two boilers.

On 4 December 1917, the BUTETOWN was on passage from Blyth for Fredrikstad with a crew of 24 and a cargo of coal, when she stranded on the rocks at Cullercoats during heavy seas and a very strong southerly wind. The Cullercoats 11.4m, self-righting, 12-oared lifeboat, CO-OPERATOR NO.1 was launched at 5.15pm and found one of the ship's boats, containing 14 crewmen, about 1.5 miles from the stranded vessel. The men told Coxswain Lisle that the other ten crewmen were in another of the ship's boats. After some searching they were found, and towed back to shore...

Wreck Site:

The remains of the BUTETOWN lie oriented in a north-west to south-east direction, in a general depth of 4-7m, depending on the size [sic] of the tide. It also lies on the north side of, and parallel to, a large reef, which dries at low water and runs out from the shore for about 400m. The BUTETOWN is totally collapsed and has been heavily salvaged over the last few decades...From her two boilers, which are situated about midships, steel cross-spars or ribs, about 5m in length, run at right angles across the wreck every metre or so, and, with the collection of huge steel plates, provide a guide to the vessel's outline.

Nothing of real interest in the way of artefacts remains on the wreck site, but good finds do occasionally turn up after the pounding of winter storms...Access from the shore is quite easy too, by going down the steps on the promenade near Table Rocks...the wreck site, about 150m offshore. (1)

Stranded; place of loss given as near Cullercoats Harbour. (2)

Essentially the same information as (1) above, with location maps of the site. (3)

Built: 1890 (1)(2)
Builder: J R Oswald & Co. (1)(2)
Where Built: Milford Haven (1)(2)
Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine (1)(2)
Boilers: 2 (1)(2)
Construction: single steel propeller (1)
Crew: 24 (1)(2)
Owner: Townline Co. Ltd., London (1)(2)

Date of Loss Qualifier: A