Middle Herrington, flints from North Hill

HER Number:
238

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Middle Herrington, flints from North Hill

Place:
Middle Herrington

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:
A leaf-shaped arrowhead and flakes, etc. were found in a field at North Hill, Middle Herrington. The area is a small knoll on the East Durham Plateau, less than eight hundred yards west of the barrow on Hasting Hill and the grouping of prehistoric 'ritual' sites there". The present location of this material is unknown.

Easting:
35

Northing:
53

Grid Reference:
NZ3553

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 238 >> 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, no. 15 R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 216, F 103