Tyne and Wear HER(529): Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 7 - Details
529
Gateshead
Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 7
Ryton
NZ16SW
Armour and Weapons
Weapon
Leaf Arrowhead
Prehistoric
Neolithic
Find
At his Site 7, south of Bar Moor, W. A. Cocks's found during the 1940s and 1950s about 100 flints. Amongst these he recorded 47 scrapers of various shapes and sizes, a borer, 14 cores, chips, etc., 10 assorted flint flakes 10 scrapers or strike-a-lights, 4 leaf-shaped arrowheads, 3 blades, 2 tanged and barbed arrowheads, 2 gunflints, a light grey flint point microlith interpreted as of Bronze Age type rather than Mesolithic, a brownish grey flint knife, and a 'chopper'. This collection is not yet properly published and the field from which it came has subsequently changed shape.
145
635
NZ145635
<< HER 529 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 20, no. 7.1