Burradon 1, stone axe

HER Number:
307

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Burradon 1, stone axe

Place:
Burradon

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Cutting Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Axe

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Part of a neolithic axe-head of flint or chert recovered from the bottom silt in the enclosure ditch of the homestead (HER 306) and presumably a 'stray'. It showed signs of breakage sometime in antiquity, with only the part carrying the blade surviving. This is a rare find of an axe-head from the heavy clays of south east Northumberland, others being found at South Shields and Jarrow to the south, Westerhope to the west and Morpeth to the north.

Easting:
269

Northing:
729

Grid Reference:
NZ269729

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 307 >> G. Jobey, 1970, An Iron Age Settlement and Homestead at Burradon, Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVIII, pp. 82-3 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 49, 51 no. 1.2