Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast

HER Number:
226

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast

Place:
Ryhope

Map Sheet:
NZ45SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
The C.B.A. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites records nine blades/flakes, two scrapers, one microlith and two micro-burins from 'between Ryhope and Sunderland, on the coast'. Some of these may be in the Sunderland Museum collection.

Easting:
41758

Northing:
52838

Grid Reference:
NZ4175852838

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 226 >> G. Coupland, 1932, A microlithic site on the Durham coast, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, VI, pp. 2-6 J.J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 86 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 180-1, F 51