Ryhope Dene, Mesolithic flints

HER Number:
227

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Ryhope Dene, Mesolithic flints

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 two blades/flakes from 'Ryhope Dene' recovered by Dr. A. Raistrick in the 1930s and donated to Skipton Museum.

Easting:
415

Northing:
530

Grid Reference:
NZ415530

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 227 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 24 J.J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, C.B.A. Research Report, No. 20, p. 87 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 92 no. 6 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 181, F52