Tunstall Hills, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints
Tunstall Hills, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints
HER Number
234
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Tunstall Hills, Neolithic/Bronze Age flints
Place
Tunstall
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Arrowheads, a flake scraper, cores, artefacts, flakes and limpets were recorded from ploughed fields at Tunstall Hills. The collection could not be located by recent researchers and is presumed lost.
Easting
439100
Northing
554400
Grid Reference
NZ439100554400
Sources
<< HER 234 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 73, nos. 14, 18
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 219, F 112
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 73, nos. 14, 18
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 219, F 112