Fulwell Quarry, flint scraper

HER Number:
376

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Fulwell Quarry, flint scraper

Place:
Fulwell

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Smoothing Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Scraper

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1939 Gibbs referred to "a flat scraper" from a "pocket of bedded clay" in the Fulwell Quarries. There is no further information and its whereabouts are unknown.

Easting:
38

Northing:
59

Grid Reference:
NZ3859

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 376 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.3 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 283, F143