Roker beach, perforated axe hammer

HER Number:
57

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Roker beach, perforated axe hammer

Place:
Roker

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Striking Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Hammer

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic/Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A very worn axe-head, in grey-buff fine-grained micaceous sandstone, with hour-glass perforation was found on Roker Beach, Sunderland, in 1974. The diameter of the axe-head is 28 mm, its max. length, width 95 mm and thickness 55 mm. Whether the find was retained by Sunderland Museum, where its details were recorded, is unknown.

Easting:
408

Northing:
595

Grid Reference:
NZ408595

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 57 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, 1976, Early Bronze Age- perforated axe R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 91, 93, no. 1