Frenchman's Point, flints
Frenchman's Point, flints
HER Number
863
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Frenchman's Point, flints
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Two distinct finds from this location are conflated in one. Trechmann wrote, "Near Westoe a well formed flake occurred on the top of the stack of limestone in Frenchman's Bay, entirely cut off from the rest of the coast line". Gibbs wrote, "Frenchman's Point...North boundary of Frenchman's Bay, in red clay. Flake and chips". The finds from both these locations are lost.
Easting
438866
Northing
566440
Grid Reference
NZ438866566440
Sources
<< HER 863 >> C.T. Trechmann, 1913, Notes on Neolithic Chipping-Sites in Northumberland and Durham, Transactions Natural History Society Northumberland Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, New series, Vol. IV (for 1909-13), p. 80
G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), p. 23
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 80 no. 4
G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), p. 23
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 80 no. 4