Tyne and Wear HER(581): Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14 C, flint knife - Details
581
Gateshead
Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14 C, flint knife
Ryton
NZ16SW
Tools and Equipment
Cutting Equipment
Knife
Prehistoric
Find
Cocks recovered from his Site 14 C, south of Clara Vale, a "finely worked knife edge, in mint condition with several flakes only partly detached". It was found in subsoil about 460 mm down on 4th Oct. 1945, about 50 yards north of the Grange stackyard. "A fine knife of Early Bronze Age, probably Beaker period".
144
644
NZ144644
<< HER 581 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.4