Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14A

HER Number:
556

District:
Gateshead

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

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Arrowhead

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
From Site 14A, south of Clara Vale, his richest site, Cocks recovered 112 flints and other implements. Amongst these he identified 52 scrapers of assorted shapes and sizes 9 cores, 8 blades, 6 flakes, 6 strike-a-lights, 5 artifacts explicitly described as leaf-shaped arrowheads and a further 5 objects which he thought were whole or part arrowheads, 5 possible knives, 5 fabricators, 2 grey flint barbed and tanged arrowheads and 1 hammer.

Easting:
142

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ142647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 556 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2