Braid Hill, chert object
Braid Hill, chert object
HER Number
1326
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Braid Hill, chert object
Place
High Callerton
Map Sheet
NZ17SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Lithic Implement
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Palaeolithic -1,000 000 to -10,000
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1907 an object of chert was found on Braid Hill, near High Callerton. It was recovered from a heap of stones "which had lately been taken off from a field close by". Its dimensions were recorded as 5 inches long x 3.5 inches wide x 1.5 inches thick, and the material identified as freshwater chert, perhaps of the Lower Purbeck, in the south of England. The identity and origins of the object are obscure.
Easting
416900
Northing
570200
Grid Reference
NZ416900570200
Sources
<< HER 1326 >> J.A. Smythe, 1910, Note on a Flint Implement found near Newcastle, Proceedings of the Univiversity of Durham Philosophical Society, III (for 1906-10), 13-14
J.A. Smythe, 1911, The Glacial Phenomena of the Country between the Tyne & the Wansbeck, 2nd series, Transactions Natural History Society of Northumberland Durham and Newcastle, Vol. III (for 1908-11), 83
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 30 no. 1
J.A. Smythe, 1911, The Glacial Phenomena of the Country between the Tyne & the Wansbeck, 2nd series, Transactions Natural History Society of Northumberland Durham and Newcastle, Vol. III (for 1908-11), 83
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 30 no. 1