Hylton Castle hill, World War One Trenches

HER Number:
5481

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hylton Castle hill, World War One Trenches

Place:
Hylton

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Fieldwork

Site Type: Specific:
Trench

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
On the brow of the hill above Hylton Castle, "in entrenchments made during the war (i.e. World War 1), there was found "a magnificent gritstone adze" (HER 382).

Easting:
360

Northing:
590

Grid Reference:
NZ360590

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5481 >> H. Preston, 1929, Flint work-sites in North-East Durham, The Vasculum, Vol. 15, no. 4, p. 141 H. Preston, 1932, Re-chipped Greenstone Axes, The Vasculum, Vol. 18, no. 1, p. 20 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 61, no. 5.2 Archaeological Services University of Durham, 2003, Hylton Lane, Downhill, Sunderland, Archaeological Assessment