Whitburn coast, Site A, flints

HER Number:
841

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitburn coast, Site A, flints

Place:
Whitburn

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1935 the Couplands published a summary of the six sites on which they had found flints along the coast near Whitburn, five being on top of the cliffs. In 1952 the Ordnance Survey, after consultation with Mrs Coupland, provided a basic list of the finds from each site, and in some cases a site location. Site A produced 202 flints, including "microliths, points, blades, waste cores". They did not locate this site. Wymer and Young group the finds from the six sites together, and do not add any information. The flints' whereabouts are unknown.

Easting:
410

Northing:
614

Grid Reference:
NZ410614

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 841 >> F. & G. Coupland, 1935, Further Tardenoisian discoveries on the north-east coast, Proceedings Prehistoric Society, I, 154 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Mesolithic flints J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report No. 20, p. 78 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, pp. 195-6, F 67 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 94 no. 5