Washington, flint dagger
Washington, flint dagger
HER Number
329
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Washington, flint dagger
Place
Washington
Map Sheet
NZ35NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Dagger
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A grey flint dagger surviving up to 163 mm long and 32 mm wide, but with the tip missing. Discovered while making a golf course in 1977. Similar daggers are unknown in Britain and it has ben suggested that the find may be a Danish flint dagger, brought across to England quite recently and then lost.
Easting
430200
Northing
559400
Grid Reference
NZ430200559400
Sources
<< HER 329 >> Sunderland Echo, 1977 - 17.vi.1977
R.Miket 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 56 no. 6, fig. 18.6
R.Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 220, Fig. IV.59, no. 4, F114
R.Miket 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 56 no. 6, fig. 18.6
R.Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 220, Fig. IV.59, no. 4, F114