Grindon, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints

HER Number:
233

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Grindon, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints

Place:
Grindon

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic/Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Two flint barbed and tanged arrowheads were found in the sand quarry at Grindon, one in 1947. The surviving one is of grey flint, 22 mm long, 23 mm wide, and 2 mm thick.

Easting:
359

Northing:
546

Grid Reference:
NZ359546

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 233 >> R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 72, no. 9.1 R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 208, F 83