Tyne and Wear HER(307): Burradon 1, stone axe - Details
307
N Tyneside
Burradon 1, stone axe
Burradon
NZ27SE
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Axe
Prehistoric
Neolithic
Find
Part of a neolithic axe-head of flint or chert recovered from the bottom silt in the enclosure ditch of the homestead (HER 306) and presumably a 'stray'. It showed signs of breakage sometime in antiquity, with only the part carrying the blade surviving. This is a rare find of an axe-head from the heavy clays of south east Northumberland, others being found at South Shields and Jarrow to the south, Westerhope to the west and Morpeth to the north.
269
729
NZ269729
<< HER 307 >> G. Jobey, 1970, An Iron Age Settlement and Homestead at Burradon, Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVIII, pp. 82-3
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 49, 51 no. 1.2