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375


Sunderland


Hylton, socketed axe from the River Wear


Hylton


NZ35NE


Tools and Equipment


Cutting Equipment


Axe


Prehistoric


Bronze Age


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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

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