Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints
Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints
HER Number
228
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints
Place
Ryhope
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
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
An arrow head, flakes, chips and cones (?cores) are said to have been found in the fields on both sides of Ryhope North Dene and Ryhope South Dene. The finds are now thought to be lost and can not be provenanced as Neolithic.
Easting
441500
Northing
553000
Grid Reference
NZ441500553000
Sources
<< HER 228 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 24
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 92, nos. 4 and 5
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 218, F 107
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 92, nos. 4 and 5
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 218, F 107