Long Sands Beach, Bronze Age Flint Scraper

HER Number

1920

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Long Sands Beach, Bronze Age Flint Scraper

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Scraper

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Bronze Age -2,600 to -700

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A Bronze Age flint scraper was discovered at Tynemouth Long Sands Beach following storms in 1998.

Easting

436700

Northing

570400

Grid Reference

NZ436700570400

Sources

<< HER 1920 >> N. Stevenson, 1998, A Possible Neolithic Henge Monument at Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear Northern Archaeology, volume 15/16, p 40
Pers. Comm. C. Hart, 1998