Tyne and Wear HER(228): Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints - Details
228
Sunderland
Ryhope Dene, Neolithic flints
Ryhope
NZ45SW
Monument
Artefact Scatter
Flint Scatter
Prehistoric
Neolithic/Bronze Age
Find
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.
415
530
NZ415530
<< 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