Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 4B
Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 4B
HER Number
537
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 4B
Place
Ryton
Map Sheet
NZ16SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Leaf Arrowhead
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Later Prehistoric -4,000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
W. A. Cocks's Site 4B, south of Bar Moor. Here Cocks found a few flints, including 3 scrapers, a honey coloured flint flake probably part of large leaf shape arrowhead, a large flake or 'strike-a-light', a pear-shaped nodule that appeared to have been used as a hammer, and a 'chopper'. There is now a building on the north end of this field.
Easting
414300
Northing
563700
Grid Reference
NZ414300563700
Sources
<< HER 537 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 20 no. 7.2
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 20 no. 7.2