Tyne and Wear HER(838): South Shields, flint spearhead or axe - Details
838
S Tyneside
South Shields, flint spearhead or axe
South Shields
NZ36NE
Armour and Weapons
Weapon
Spearhead
Prehistoric
Neolithic
Find
On 26 Jan. 1887 R. Blair exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle "a Neolithic Flint Axe", 6 1/8 inches long x 2 inches broad, "found in a ballast hill at South Shields now in course of removal". The findspot is vague. In 1923 W.P. Brewis announced the donation to the Society of the Blair collection, which included "a flint spearhead from a local ballast heap", but no other flint object of note. Brewis conflated the 2 published references, thus equating the 2 objects, and the Ordnance Survey record followed suit.
36135
67559
NZ3613567559
<< HER 838 >> R. Blair, 1889, Exhibited, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, III (for 1887-8), p. 3
W.P. Brewis, 1925, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, I (for 1923-4), pp. 122, 186
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Neolithic axe/spearhead
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 80 no. 3, p. 81 no. 7