Ryton (Clara Vale), hone

HER Number:
579

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton (Clara Vale), hone

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Sharpening Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Whetstone

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Among the lithic material he recovered from his Site 14 B, south of Clara Vale, Cocks also found a "tapered light grey stone with rounded ends & of rectangular section", interpreted as a whetstone or burnisher.

Easting:
1425

Northing:
6435

Grid Reference:
NZ14256435

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 579 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.3b