Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints

HER Number:
228

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints

Place:
Ryhope

Map Sheet:
NZ45SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic/Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
An arrow head, flakes, chips and cones (?cores) are said to have been found in the fields on both sides of Ryhope North Dene and Ryhope South Dene. The finds are now thought to be lost and can not be provenanced as Neolithic.

Easting:
415

Northing:
530

Grid Reference:
NZ415530

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 228 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 24 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 92, nos. 4 and 5 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 218, F 107