Dewley Hill, Mesolithic flints
Dewley Hill, Mesolithic flints
HER Number
186
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Dewley Hill, Mesolithic flints
Place
Throckley
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
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
Over four dozen flints were picked up by J.A. Smythe and his companions from the surface of the mound, some time before the publication of his article in 1911. They comprised "mesolithic cores, blades and flakes, plus unworked pieces". Only ten flints survive, comprising six waste flakes, three cores and one flake with minor retouch.
Easting
416030
Northing
568020
Grid Reference
NZ416030568020
Sources
<< HER 186 >> J.A. Smythe, 1911, The Glacial Phenomena of the Country between the Tyne & the Wansbeck, Transactions Natural History Society Northumberland Durham and Newcastle, New Series, Vol. III (1908-11), pp. 83-4 and n.
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 13
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, J.H.O., 1951, Dewley Hill or mound
J.J. Wymer, 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, C.B.A. Research Report, p.221
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, no. 2.1, p. 15
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 13
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, J.H.O., 1951, Dewley Hill or mound
J.J. Wymer, 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, C.B.A. Research Report, p.221
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, no. 2.1, p. 15