Tunstall Hills, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints

HER Number:
234

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Tunstall Hills, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints

Place:
Tunstall

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic/Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Arrowheads, a flake scraper, cores, artefacts, flakes and limpets were recorded from ploughed fields at Tunstall Hills. The collection could not be located by recent researchers and is presumed lost.

Easting:
391

Northing:
544

Grid Reference:
NZ391544

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 234 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 73, nos. 14, 18 R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 219, F 112