Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14A
Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14A
HER Number
              556
          District
              Gateshead
          Site Name
              Ryton (Clara Vale), Cocks Site 14A
          Place
              Ryton
          Map Sheet
              NZ16SW
          Class
              Monument <By Form>
          Site Type: Broad
              Artefact Scatter
          Site Type: Specific
              Flint Scatter
          General Period
              PREHISTORIC
          Specific Period
              Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
          Form of Evidence
              Find
          Description
              From Site 14A, south of Clara Vale, his richest site, Cocks recovered 112 flints and other implements. Amongst these he identified 52 scrapers of assorted shapes and sizes 9 cores, 8 blades, 6 flakes, 6 strike-a-lights, 5 artifacts explicitly described as leaf-shaped arrowheads and a further 5 objects which he thought were whole or part arrowheads, 5 possible knives, 5 fabricators, 2 grey flint barbed and tanged arrowheads and 1 hammer.
          Easting
              414200
          Northing
              564700
          Grid Reference
              NZ414200564700
    Sources
              << HER 556 >>    Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2
          R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2