Flinton Hill, flints

HER Number:
253

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Flinton Hill, flints

Place:
Flinton Hill

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

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:
In 1932 Gibbs recorded the discovery of a scraper, flakes and artefacts from Flinton Hill. A later authority reported that they were post-Mesolithic in character. The location of the find is on the edge of the limestone plateau overlooking the main river valley, near Hasting Hill prehistoric barrow site. The objects seem to have been in Sunderland Museum, but some at least are now missing.

Easting:
339

Northing:
545

Grid Reference:
NZ339545

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 253 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 67, no. 2 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 207-8, F 81