Sunderland, Esplanade West, scrapers

HER Number:
380

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Esplanade West, scrapers

Place:
Sunderland

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 recorded the discovery of "reddish yellow scrapers" in this area. Apparently now lost.

Easting:
397

Northing:
561

Grid Reference:
NZ397561

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 380 >> 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. 64, no. 23 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 295, F 178