Jarrow Slake, flint axes

HER Number:
490

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow Slake, flint axes

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Cutting Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Axe

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Two flint axes, one 7.25 in x 3.5 in at the broadest part and of a deep red-brown colour, the other 5.25 in x 2.25 in and white, were found in 1860 in alluvial soil at the estuary of the Don near Jarrow during the construction of Tyne Dock. It was suggested that they had come in ballast. Both are now lost.

Easting:
34

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ3465

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 490 >> Archaeologia Aeliana, 1861, Flint Implements, 2, V, p. 102 J. Evans, 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements...of Great Britain, 2nd edition, p. 101 G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 9 W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, p. 199n R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 78, no. 3