Cleadon, flints

HER Number:
883

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Cleadon, flints

Place:
Cleadon

Map Sheet:
NZ36SE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Scatter

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Gibbs included Cleadon in his list of flint sites thus: "CLEADON. Sand pits. Bared surfaces and top gravel. Limpets and Artifacts". Miket equates this with the "rolled flints" recorded as coming from a raised beach. The find spot remains utterly obscure, but note that there were quarries on the site of Cleadon Park, south of Quarry Lane, in the middle of the 19th century.

Easting:
38

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ3863

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 883 >> G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), 25 Transactions Natural History Society Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-on-Tyne, 189? Vol. XIII (for 1894-9), 165 R.Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 85 no. 6