South Shields, Target Rock, flint flake

HER Number:
836

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Target Rock, flint flake

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Tools and Equipment

Site Type: Broad:
Cutting Equipment

Site Type: Specific:
Flake

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Gibbs recorded the discovery of a flint flake on a stack at Target Rock, "close to Trow Rocks, in a thin layer of clay on top". Its present location is obscure.

Easting:
383

Northing:
667

Grid Reference:
NZ383667

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 836 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, XIX (for 1929-32), 23 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 9 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 295 F 180