Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14B
Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14B
HER Number
571
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14B
Place
Ryton
Map Sheet
NZ16SW
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
Cocks recovered 68 flints from his Site 14 B south of Clara Vale. Among these he identified 27 scrapers of various shapes, 14 flakes, 8 strike-a-lights, 6 possible knives, 2 leaf-shaped arrowheads, 2 cores, 2 probable gunflints, a light grey speckled barbed & tanged arrow head, and 1 tinderbox flint.
Easting
414250
Northing
564350
Grid Reference
NZ414250564350
Sources
<< HER 571 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.3d
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.3d