Hylton Castle hill, miscellaneous worked flints
Hylton Castle hill, miscellaneous worked flints
HER Number
384
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Hylton Castle hill, miscellaneous worked flints
Place
Hylton
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
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
On the southern slopes of Hylton Castle Hill Preston found worked flints which included a hollow scraper, a food chopper and a pyramidal core, plus two flakes found in 1931. Their present whereabouts are unknown, Miket in 1984 also included in this group "two flints said to have been collected in the 1930s by Dr. A. Raistrick" now at the Craven Museum, Skipton.
Easting
436000
Northing
559000
Grid Reference
NZ436000559000
Sources
<< HER 384 >> H. Preston, 1929, Flint work-sites in North-East Durham, The Vasculum,Vol. 15, no. 4, p. 141
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 63, no. 16.1-3
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 167, F 44
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 63, no. 16.1-3
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 167, F 44