Birtley, flints
Birtley, flints
HER Number
650
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Birtley, flints
Place
Birtley
Map Sheet
NZ25NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Lithic Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Mesolithic -10,000 to -4,000
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1932-33 a number of prehistoric artifacts were found at Birtley Brickworks from "a large area of glacial varve clay making a late glacial lake". The objects included a flint knife, "a few cores of true Lyne Hill type", flakes with secondary chipping, scrapers, "and a fair number of coarsely worked bulky flakes".
Easting
426500
Northing
555800
Grid Reference
NZ426500555800
Sources
<< HER 650 >> A. Raistrick, 1933, Mesolithic Sites of the North-East Coast of England, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia,Vol. VII, Part II, pp. 196-7, fig. 5.1-6
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 32 no. 4
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 32 no. 4