Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 7

HER Number:
529

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 7

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Leaf Arrowhead

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
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.

Easting:
145

Northing:
635

Grid Reference:
NZ145635

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 529 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 20, no. 7.1