Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14

HER Number:
551

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
On his Site 14, south of Clara Vale, Cocks found 67 assorted flints, amongst which he identified 20 scrapers of various shapes and sizes, 6 cores, 6 flakes or strike-a-lights, 3 blades, 3 borers, 7 flakes, a grey flint barbed and tanged arrow point, a mottled grey flint knife and a single chip.

Easting:
140

Northing:
646

Grid Reference:
NZ140646

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 551 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.1