A Langdale stone axe, 4.5 inches long, was found in 1955 during the building of a council house at Farringdon, although the precise grid reference given is disputed. The find appears to have been reported to Sunderland Museum, but is now lost.

A large, coarse sandstone axe was found at Doxford Park in a 'load of earth' during road making 1972 and retained by the finder. The object is described as follows: length 134 mm, max width 46 mm, max thickness 34 mm. Broad blade, slightly chipped. The axe does not appear to fall into any known group of sandstone axes in north England and south Scotland.

Arrowheads, a flake scraper, cores, artefacts, flakes and limpets were recorded from ploughed fields at Tunstall Hills. The collection could not be located by recent researchers and is presumed lost.

Two flint barbed and tanged arrowheads were found in the sand quarry at Grindon, one in 1947. The surviving one is of grey flint, 22 mm long, 23 mm wide, and 2 mm thick.

In 1905 R. Paxton recovered "flints and scrapers" during the quarrying of sand and gravel at Grindon, and in 1928 a large flake was found on the same site. Wymer records one core, two blades/flakes and a micro-burin from this site at Sunderland Museum, donated by Raistrick, and two blades/flakes at Skipton Museum. Sunderland Museum holds flakes, a scraper and a microlith all labelled 'Grindon 1905'.

On Thursday 5th June, 1879 some workmen found a stone coffin on land between the estates of Mr. Chapman, of Silksworth Hall, and Mr. Beckwith of Silksworth House. The coffin was found to contain "human remains, together with antique weapons".

A medieval market cross, first mentioned in 1409/10, traditionally sited in the market street (modern Newgate St), near its junction with Low Friar St. It was pulled down 1625 but ordered to be rebuilt in 1687 with steps and other conveniences. In 1701 William Yarnold was given permission to remove the then pillar and dial and erect, on columns, a cistern for the New Water. This was described in 1736 as "lately pulled down", and replaced with a "Pillar of Stonework". The pillar was demolished in 1783, and rebuilt to a design by David Stephenson, architect. This version was "surmounted by a pretty little spire with a clock and ornamented on the four sides with the arms of the mayor, sheriff and magistrates". In 1808 it was taken down and rebuilt, in lengthened form, at the north end of the new butcher market on the site of the future Grey St. It finally disappeared during the construction of Grey St, and may have been used for building material. The White Cross was the site of an infamous duel in 1701. Ferdinando Foster, MP, and John Fenwick of Rock, coal owner, were attending a Grand Jury dinner at the Black Horse Inn, near the crossroads of Clayton Street and Newgate Street. There was great rivalry between the two men and they started to argue. The next morning they accidently met at the White Cross. They resumed their argument and soon a crowd gathered. The mob, anxious to see a fight, encouraged the contenders to use violence, and swords were drawn. The two men were well matched, but Forster slipped and fell. Fenwick killed his opponent and escaped towards Gallowgate. He was caught within a week, tried and executed. Usually hangings took place outside the town walls, but the authorities were afraid that Fenwick's employees at the pit would rescue him, so he was hanged from a white thorn treee growing near to the White Cross. V. Histon, 2000, Nightmare on Grey Street - Newcastle's Darker Side, p 34.

During excavations for sand and gravel carried out about 1931, three pottery vessels were recovered on the north side of Ryhope Dene almost immediately above the coast line. It is reported that some human bones occurred, but whether this is correct, or we can regard the deposit as a burial, is doubtful. The relics were found by Mr. T. Nelson of the Town Farm Dairy, Ryhope, staff the Sunderland Museum to see the site. The pottery was or roman origin, consisting of 2 buff-coloured bowls with vertical rims, mortaria and the lower half of a bowl in calcite-gritted ware. These finds, together with those from 2 sites further south in Co. Durham, to a suggestion that there had been Roman signal stations in these places.

An arrow head, flakes, chips and cones (?cores) are said to have been found in the fields on both sides of Ryhope North Dene and Ryhope South Dene. The finds are now thought to be lost and can not be provenanced as Neolithic.

The C.B.A. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites records two blades/flakes from 'Ryhope Dene' recovered by Dr. A. Raistrick in the 1930s and donated to Skipton Museum.