Foster's Brick Yard and clay pit is depicted on the Padley map of 1842. {1} The brickworks would appear to have been in operation until just after 1883. After this date, the area in and around the brickworks would have been redeveloped for housing during the late Victorian expansion of the city. {2} All traces of the brickworks appear to have disappeared by the turn of the century, as they are not shown on the 2nd edition 25 inch Ordnance Survey County Series map of 1905. {3} John and Thomas Foster, owner's of Foster's Brickyard in Newland, were also builders. {4} Foster's Brick Yard is notable for the discovery of the skeleton of a long-necked plesiosaur, missing only its skull, which was donated to Lincoln Museum in 1906. Unusually for an historic specimen, it can be placed in a sound stratigraphical context, and be confidently dated as Jurassic, specifically from the Pliensbachian (189.6 to 183 MyBP). {5}{6}