Trow Rocks, socketed bronze axe
Trow Rocks, socketed bronze axe
HER Number
839
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Trow Rocks, socketed bronze axe
Place
Trow Rocks
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Socketed Axehead
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Found on 19 September 1864 at Trow Rocks. "A characteristic member of the Yorkshire three-ribbed type", with side loop, practically unexpanded blade and prominent casting seams. Length 81 mm, width across the cutting edge 43 mm.
Easting
438400
Northing
566700
Grid Reference
NZ438400566700
Sources
<< HER 839 >> South Shields Gazette, 1864, 23 September
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, 9
W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 207
C. Burgess & Miket, 1976, Three Socketed Axes from North-East England... Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, IV, pp. 1-9, fig. 1c
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 80, 83, fig. 26 no. 5
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, 9
W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 207
C. Burgess & Miket, 1976, Three Socketed Axes from North-East England... Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, IV, pp. 1-9, fig. 1c
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 80, 83, fig. 26 no. 5