Trow Rocks, flint flakes
Trow Rocks, flint flakes
HER Number
837
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Trow Rocks, flint flakes
Place
Trow Rocks
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Flake
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Gibbs recorded the discovery of "flakes and chips" from Trow Rocks, "in light boulder clay, with a patch of red sandy clay above it". These are assumed lost, but an unknown number of flints from Trow Rocks are in the Wilf Dodds Collection now in the Bowes Museum.
Easting
438400
Northing
566700
Grid Reference
NZ438400566700
Sources
<< HER 837 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, XIX (for 1929-32), 23
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 82 no. 14
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 188 F 61
Pers comm. J. Pickin, 1991, Mesolithic flints from Monkwearmouth -Historic Environment Record
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 82 no. 14
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 188 F 61
Pers comm. J. Pickin, 1991, Mesolithic flints from Monkwearmouth -Historic Environment Record