Marsden Quarries, flints
Marsden Quarries, flints
HER Number
855
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Marsden Quarries, flints
Place
Marsden
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Mesolithic -10,000 to -4,000
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Gibbs recorded the discovery of a flake and chips in red soil at Marsden Quarries. In 1964-5 "a scatter of Mesolithic flints including flakes and cores" was seen by M. Chapel, and either not picked up or not given to the museum, at much the same location. The Ordnance Survey quotes museum records for this information. Young adds a note that Wilf Dodds had seen Mesolithic material from this area.
Easting
440500
Northing
564100
Grid Reference
NZ440500564100
Sources
<< HER 855 >> G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), 23
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, RPM, 1977, Mesolithic/Neolithic ?imps
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 95 no. 15
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 161 F36
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, RPM, 1977, Mesolithic/Neolithic ?imps
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 95 no. 15
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 161 F36