Whitburn Sands, flint blade

HER Number

1997

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Whitburn Sands, flint blade

Place

Seaburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Blade

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Mesolithic -10,000 to -4,000

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A flint found in the Seaburn submerged forest deposits circa 1993. It is of brown-black flint of a type used extensively in the post-Mesolithic eras, especially the Neolithic period in northern England. The tool appears to be a blade with no traces of retouch.

Easting

440610

Northing

560190

Grid Reference

NZ440610560190

Sources

<< HER 1997 >> Pers comm. C.R. Hart, 1993 Seaburn, Submerged Forest Bed, Whitburn Sands