Marsden Quarries, flints

HER Number:
855

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden Quarries, flints

Place:
Marsden

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:
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:
405

Northing:
641

Grid Reference:
NZ405641

Lats/Lons:

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