Marsden Island, flints

HER Number:
862

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden Island, flints

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Miket reports three separate discoveries here: (1) 7 flints, including core and scraper, found in 1965; (2) 54 flints, most unworked, found in 1966; (3) scraper, point and several hundred pieces from a probable stack.

Easting:
402

Northing:
648

Grid Reference:
NZ402648

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 862 >> R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 94 no. 3