Marsden Bay cliffs, flints

HER Number:
861

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden Bay cliffs, flints

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic?

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Under the heading, "Cliff Tops towards Marsden Bay" Gibbs recorded flakes and chips. "Some coast fields bear quantities of flint, most of it ballast, probably carted up with seaweed from the shore". Wymer noted an unknown quantity of flint flakes/blades found by Raistrick on the cliffs near Marsden.

Easting:
398

Northing:
656

Grid Reference:
NZ398656

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 861 >> G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), p. 23 A. Raistrick, 1933, The distribution of Mesolithic sites in the north of England, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 31, 141-56 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, p. 161 F34