Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer
Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer
HER Number
59
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Hammer Head
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A hammer head of polished Scotch granite dredged from the Wear. Once kept in the castle of Newcastle, it presumably became part of the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, but is not in the Museum of Antiquities.
Easting
440000
Northing
557500
Grid Reference
NZ440000557500
Sources
<< HER 59 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, Newcastle Vol. I, p. 50
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 91, no. 3
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 91, no. 3