Tyne and Wear HER(375): Hylton, socketed axe from the River Wear - Details
375
Sunderland
Hylton, socketed axe from the River Wear
Hylton
NZ35NE
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Axe
Prehistoric
Bronze Age
Find
A socketed bronze axe was found in the River Wear at Hylton. There is no further information, and its whereabouts are unknown.
35
57
NZ3557
<< HER 375 >> W. Page, ed. 1905, Victoria County History, Durham, Vol. I, p. 207
N.R. Whitcomb, 1968, Two Prehistoric Dug-out Canoes from the River Wear at Hylton,... Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, pp. 300-301
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 63, no. 18