Ryton (Clara Vale), jet disc

HER Number:
580

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton (Clara Vale), jet disc

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Unassigned

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Disc

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
As well as the lithic material he recovered from his Site 14 B, south of Clara Vale, Cocks also found "a disc of jet or cannel coal shaped by scraping", measuring 39 mm x 35 mm.

Easting:
1425

Northing:
6435

Grid Reference:
NZ14256435

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 580 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.3a