Birtley, flints

HER Number:
650

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Birtley, flints

Place:
Birtley

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Lithic Implement

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Mesolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1932-33 a number of prehistoric artifacts were found at Birtley Brickworks from "a large area of glacial varve clay making a late glacial lake". The objects included a flint knife, "a few cores of true Lyne Hill type", flakes with secondary chipping, scrapers, "and a fair number of coarsely worked bulky flakes".

Easting:
265

Northing:
558

Grid Reference:
NZ265558

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 650 >> A. Raistrick, 1933, Mesolithic Sites of the North-East Coast of England, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia,Vol. VII, Part II, pp. 196-7, fig. 5.1-6 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 32 no. 4