Whitburn coast, Site E, flints
Whitburn coast, Site E, flints
HER Number
845
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Whitburn coast, Site E, flints
Place
Whitburn
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Mesolithic -10,000 to -4,000
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1935 the Couplands published a summary of the six sites on which they had found flints along the coast near Whitburn, five being on top of the cliffs. In 1952 the Ordnance Survey, after consultation with Mrs Coupland, provided a basic list of the finds from each site, and in the case of Site E a location - south of Souter lighthouse. It produced 60 flints, "including fifty indeterminate pieces and two points". Wymer and Young group the finds from the six sites together and add no further details. The flints' whereabouts are unknown.
Easting
440820
Northing
564020
Grid Reference
NZ440820564020
Sources
<< HER 845 >> F. & G. Coupland, 1935, Further Tardenoisian discoveries on the north-east coast, Proceedings Prehistoric Society, I, 154
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Mesolthic flints
J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 78
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, pp. 195-6, F 67
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 95 no. 9
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Mesolthic flints
J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 78
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, pp. 195-6, F 67
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 95 no. 9