Ryton (Clara Vale), jet discs

HER Number:
567

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton (Clara Vale), jet discs

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Unassigned

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Disc

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In addition to the flints from Site 14A, south of Clara Vale, Cocks found two jet discs. One is a disc of jet or cannel coal, shaped by scraping, with a perforation started on one side. The other, found on the north side of a gravelly ridge on 9th April 1953, was half of a large disc of jet or cannel coal with a worked hollow in the centre of each side, showing pecking.

Easting:
142

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ142647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 567 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2e