Hylton Castle hill, miscellaneous worked flints

HER Number:
384

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hylton Castle hill, miscellaneous worked flints

Place:
Hylton

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
On the southern slopes of Hylton Castle Hill Preston found worked flints which included a hollow scraper, a food chopper and a pyramidal core, plus two flakes found in 1931. Their present whereabouts are unknown, Miket in 1984 also included in this group "two flints said to have been collected in the 1930s by Dr. A. Raistrick" now at the Craven Museum, Skipton.

Easting:
360

Northing:
590

Grid Reference:
NZ360590

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 384 >> H. Preston, 1929, Flint work-sites in North-East Durham, The Vasculum,Vol. 15, no. 4, p. 141 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 63, no. 16.1-3 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 167, F 44