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I didn't know this
Posted by Norman on 16/4/2025, 5:23 pm
I didn't know this and never thought about it but before we had a Castle built in that city along the river we all call Newcastle, its name was Monkchester.Never knew that until today.
Re: I didn't know this
Posted by Stan Wears on 16/4/2025, 5:45 pm, in reply to "I didn't know this"
The swing bridge stands on the roman foundations of Hadrian's original bridge,family name pons aelius. I wasn't aware either Norman as I only study 1080 onwards. Thanks though..
Re: I didn't know this-nor me
Posted by Mac Cummings on 16/4/2025, 5:58 pm, in reply to "I didn't know this"
Yet very few historians when talking about it call it Monkchester. Theres a Monkchester ward in Walker which confuses the matter. We had Pandon around where the law courts are now and other villages such as Benwell in the area. The site of the castle which was previously home to a roman fort and later a church.so that area was always important. When main post office was being built along from the castle keep a canoe burial was discovered. In the 1970’s when work was being done on the roads by the keep over 600 burials were uncovered, as they didn't do the whole area it's reasonable to think that other graves at still in situ and a few years back when remedial work was done on a drain a mother and child burial was discovered. The paving outside the keep has lines of cobbles between them. They mark the footprint of the roman fort, and underneath the railway arch are copies of Anglo-Saxon grave markers including a viking hogsback grave marker. It's a very interesting area.
