Fulwell Quarry, flint scraper
Fulwell Quarry, flint scraper
HER Number
376
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Fulwell Quarry, flint scraper
Place
Fulwell
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Scraper (Tool)
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1939 Gibbs referred to "a flat scraper" from a "pocket of bedded clay" in the Fulwell Quarries. There is no further information and its whereabouts are unknown.
Easting
438000
Northing
559000
Grid Reference
NZ438000559000
Sources
<< HER 376 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.3
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 283, F143
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.3
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 283, F143