Tyne and Wear HER(237): Tunstall Hills ?bronze axe - Details
237
Sunderland
Tunstall Hills ?bronze axe
Tunstall
NZ35SE
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Axe
Prehistoric
Bronze Age
Find
It was reported that: "In the year 1805, an ancient Roman Celt was ploughed out of Tunstall Hills. It was about 5 inches long, and 2.5 broad at the edge". It is implied that the find was a bronze rather than a stone axe.
393
544
NZ393544
<< HER 237 >> G. Garbutt, 1819, History of Sunderland, p. 112
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 72, no. 12