Middle Herrington, flints from North Hill
Middle Herrington, flints from North Hill
HER Number
238
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Middle Herrington, flints from North Hill
Place
Middle Herrington
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
A leaf-shaped arrowhead and flakes, etc. were found in a field at North Hill, Middle Herrington. The area is a small knoll on the East Durham Plateau, less than eight hundred yards west of the barrow on Hasting Hill and the grouping of prehistoric 'ritual' sites there". The present location of this material is unknown.
Easting
435000
Northing
553000
Grid Reference
NZ435000553000
Sources
<< HER 238 >> 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, no. 15
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 216, F 103
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 73, no. 15
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 216, F 103