High Callerton, Braid Hill, chert object

HER Number:
1326

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
High Callerton, Braid Hill, chert object

Place:
High Callerton

Map Sheet:
NZ17SE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Lithic Implement

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Palaeolithic?

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1907 an object of chert was found on Braid Hill, near High Callerton. It was recovered from a heap of stones "which had lately been taken off from a field close by". Its dimensions were recorded as 5 inches long x 3.5 inches wide x 1.5 inches thick, and the material identified as freshwater chert, perhaps of the Lower Purbeck, in the south of England. The identity and origins of the object are obscure.

Easting:
169

Northing:
702

Grid Reference:
NZ169702

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1326 >> J.A. Smythe, 1910, Note on a Flint Implement found near Newcastle, Proceedings of the Univiversity of Durham Philosophical Society, III (for 1906-10), 13-14 J.A. Smythe, 1911, The Glacial Phenomena of the Country between the Tyne & the Wansbeck, 2nd series, Transactions Natural History Society of Northumberland Durham and Newcastle, Vol. III (for 1908-11), 83 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 30 no. 1