Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer

HER Number:
59

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Striking Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Hammer

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic/Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A hammer head of polished Scotch granite dredged from the Wear. Once kept in the castle of Newcastle, it presumably became part of the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, but is not in the Museum of Antiquities.

Easting:
400

Northing:
575

Grid Reference:
NZ400575

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 59 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, Newcastle Vol. I, p. 50 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 91, no. 3