Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast
Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast
HER Number
225
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ryhope, Mesolithic flints from the coast
Place
Ryhope
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
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 1931-32 G. Coupland excavated an eroding cliff edge (now gone) near Ryhope and, at a depth of 4 to 5 feet, in a sandy subsoil, recovered 383 flint tools and pebbles. Coupland's list seems now to be the only record of what he found: waste pieces 150; cores 49; core-scraper 1; blades (whole) 37; blades (broken) 46-83; scrapers (worked) 7; 'scrapers' (various usages) 27; thick pieces (planes?) 12; points 9; triangle 1; micro-burin 1; microlithic blade 1; indefinite 41; total 383. Associated pebbles 7, of which one was a hammer stone. The material may be in Sunderland Museum.
Easting
441721
Northing
552971
Grid Reference
NZ441721552971
Sources
<< HER 225 >> G. Coupland, 1932, A microlithic site on the Durham coast,Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, VI, pp. 2-6, 381
G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic Man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 24
H. Preston, 1935, Microlithic and other industries of the Wear Valley, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VI (for 1933-34), p. 110
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, JHO, 1952, Mesolithic flint implements: possible Neolithic/Bronze Age re-chipping
J.J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 86
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 92, no. 2
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, No. 161, pp. 178-180, F50
G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic Man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 24
H. Preston, 1935, Microlithic and other industries of the Wear Valley, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VI (for 1933-34), p. 110
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, JHO, 1952, Mesolithic flint implements: possible Neolithic/Bronze Age re-chipping
J.J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20, p. 86
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 92, no. 2
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, No. 161, pp. 178-180, F50