Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14B

HER Number:
571

District:
Gateshead

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

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Leaf Arrowhead

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Cocks recovered 68 flints from his Site 14 B south of Clara Vale. Among these he identified 27 scrapers of various shapes, 14 flakes, 8 strike-a-lights, 6 possible knives, 2 leaf-shaped arrowheads, 2 cores, 2 probable gunflints, a light grey speckled barbed & tanged arrow head, and 1 tinderbox flint.

Easting:
1425

Northing:
6435

Grid Reference:
NZ14256435

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 571 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.3d