Tyne and Wear HER(561): Ryton (Clara Vale), polished axe - Details
561
Gateshead
Ryton (Clara Vale), polished axe
Ryton
NZ16SW
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Axe
Prehistoric
Neolithic
Find
In addition to the flints from his Site 14A, south of Clara Vale, Cocks recovered what he interpreted as a part of a polished axe: "light grey flint irregularly broken fragment of polished celt, retaining about 0.5" of cutting edge".
142
647
NZ142647
<< HER 561 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2f