Great Eppleton, flints
Great Eppleton, flints
HER Number
250
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Great Eppleton, flints
Place
Great Eppleton
Map Sheet
NZ34NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Flakes and a scraper or spearhead from north-west of the water tanks at Great Eppleton were reported in 1932, but cannot now be traced.
Easting
436800
Northing
548200
Grid Reference
NZ436800548200
Sources
<< HER 250 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 26
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 54, no. 3
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 208 F 82
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 54, no. 3
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 208 F 82