Trow Rocks, flint flakes

HER Number:
837

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Trow Rocks, flint flakes

Place:
Trow Rocks

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Cutting Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Flake

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

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:
384

Northing:
667

Grid Reference:
NZ384667

Lats/Lons:

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