Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 4B

HER Number:
537

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton (Bar Moor), Cocks Site 4B

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Leaf Arrowhead

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
W. A. Cocks's Site 4B, south of Bar Moor. Here Cocks found a few flints, including 3 scrapers, a honey coloured flint flake probably part of large leaf shape arrowhead, a large flake or 'strike-a-light', a pear-shaped nodule that appeared to have been used as a hammer, and a 'chopper'. There is now a building on the north end of this field.

Easting:
143

Northing:
637

Grid Reference:
NZ143637

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 537 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 20 no. 7.2