Tyne and Wear HER(59): Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer - Details
59
Sunderland
Wearmouth, River Wear, axe hammer
Monkwearmouth
NZ45NW
Tools and Equipment
Striking Equipment
Hammer
Prehistoric
Neolithic/Bronze Age
Find
A hammer head of polished Scotch granite dredged from the Wear. Once kept in the castle of Newcastle, it presumably became part of the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, but is not in the Museum of Antiquities.
400
575
NZ400575
<< HER 59 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, Newcastle Vol. I, p. 50
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 91, no. 3