Tyne and Wear HER(556): Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14A - Details
556
Gateshead
Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14A
Ryton
NZ16SW
Armour and Weapons
Weapon
Arrowhead
Prehistoric
Neolithic
Find
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.
142
647
NZ142647
<< HER 556 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2