Report: Newcastle
April 2011 | Northern Counties Archaeological Services
A report on important excavations at the castle, Newcastle upon Tyne has been prepared by Northern Counties Archaeological Services. Patrick Ottaway has reported on the late Anglo-Saxon and medieval ironwork. It includes a number of quarrels, the heads of projectiles fired by a crossbow, associated with the early years of the Norman castle, which form one of the earliest bodies of archaeological evidence for the use of this weapon from England. There are also two locks from chests reused as coffins in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery on the site. A range of other domestic items, structural fittings and horse equipment completes the assemblage. The published report has appeared in Archaeologia Aeliana fifth series, Volume 39, pp. 269-75.
Medieval iron padlock from the castle, Newcastle upon Tyne