Copt Hill, plano-convex flint knife
Copt Hill, plano-convex flint knife
HER Number
439
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Copt Hill, plano-convex flint knife
Place
Houghton-le-Spring
Map Sheet
NZ34NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Plano Convex Knife
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In addition to those found with burials, a number of stone implements have been found on or near the burial mound at Copt Hill. These include a flint knife, two surviving flint scrapers, and 10 pieces of flint and stone presently in the British Museum (8 unbroken flakes and 1 irregular lump of flint).
Easting
435340
Northing
549220
Grid Reference
NZ435340549220
Sources
<< HER 439 >> R. Young, 1985, The Copt Hill, Houghton-le-Spring, Round Cairn: a Reassessment, Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, XIII, pp. 13-14, fig. 4.1
I.A. Kinnes & I.H. Longworth, 1985, Catalogue of the...prehistoric...material, in the Greenwell Collection, 3- British Museum
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, 161, pp. 199-200, fig. IV 76 no. 3
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 53 1c
C.T.Trechmann, 1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, pp. 123-30
I.A. Kinnes & I.H. Longworth, 1985, Catalogue of the...prehistoric...material, in the Greenwell Collection, 3- British Museum
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, 161, pp. 199-200, fig. IV 76 no. 3
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 53 1c
C.T.Trechmann, 1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, pp. 123-30