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581


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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".


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<< HER 581 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.4

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