Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast
Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast
HER Number
226
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast
Place
Ryhope
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Mesolithic -10,000 to -4,000
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
The C.B.A. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites records nine blades/flakes, two scrapers, one microlith and two micro-burins from 'between Ryhope and Sunderland, on the coast'. Some of these may be in the Sunderland Museum collection.
Easting
441758
Northing
552838
Grid Reference
NZ441758552838
Sources
<< HER 226 >> G. Coupland, 1932, A microlithic site on the Durham coast, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, VI, pp. 2-6
J.J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 86
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 180-1, F 51
J.J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 86
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 180-1, F 51