Tyne and Wear HER(251): Hetton-le-Hole, Carr House Farm, stone axe - Details
251
Sunderland
Hetton-le-Hole, Carr House Farm, stone axe
Hetton-le-Hole
NZ34NE
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Axe
Prehistoric
Neolithic/Bronze Age
Find
Part of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age stone axe was found in 1962 during ploughing at Carr House Farm. The axe, made of volcanic tuff and believed to originate from the Pike of Stickle source in Cumbria, was said to be in the possession of Murton Modern School or Easington Comprehensive in 1977.
376
476
NZ376476
<< HER 251 >> CBA Annual Report, 1963, No. 13, June, p. 24
Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, RPM, 1977, Late Neolithic/Early Br onxe Age stone axe, NE 34 NE 4
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 54, no. 4