Marsden, Trow Rocks coast, flints

HER Number:
860

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden, Trow Rocks coast, flints

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW NZ36NE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Miket records that, in 1963, 130 flint flakes were found on this stretch of coast, "mostly broken fragments but includes eighteen struck flakes, and possibly one core/hammerstone". Wymer, under the heading Marsden and Trow Rocks, reports that in Sunderland Museum, there were 4 cores and 32 blades/flakes from the W. Dodds collection. It is not clear whether these two groups, in spite of different quantities and descriptions, are really one.

Easting:
39640

Northing:
65839

Grid Reference:
NZ3964065839

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 860 >> J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 78 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 8