Grindon, Mesolithic flints

HER Number:
232

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Grindon, Mesolithic flints

Place:
Grindon

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1905 R. Paxton recovered "flints and scrapers" during the quarrying of sand and gravel at Grindon, and in 1928 a large flake was found on the same site. Wymer records one core, two blades/flakes and a micro-burin from this site at Sunderland Museum, donated by Raistrick, and two blades/flakes at Skipton Museum. Sunderland Museum holds flakes, a scraper and a microlith all labelled 'Grindon 1905'.

Easting:
359

Northing:
546

Grid Reference:
NZ359546

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 232 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-30), p. 25 J. Wymer ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, C.B.A. Research Report, No. 20, p. 86 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 72, no. 9.3 R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 153-4, F 24