South Shields, Frenchman's Point, flints

HER Number:
863

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Frenchman's Point, flints

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Two distinct finds from this location are conflated in one. Trechmann wrote, "Near Westoe a well formed flake occurred on the top of the stack of limestone in Frenchman's Bay, entirely cut off from the rest of the coast line". Gibbs wrote, "Frenchman's Point...North boundary of Frenchman's Bay, in red clay. Flake and chips". The finds from both these locations are lost.

Easting:
38866

Northing:
66440

Grid Reference:
NZ3886666440

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 863 >> C.T. Trechmann, 1913, Notes on Neolithic Chipping-Sites in Northumberland and Durham, Transactions Natural History Society Northumberland Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, New series, Vol. IV (for 1909-13), p. 80 G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), p. 23 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 80 no. 4