Esplanade West, scrapers
Esplanade West, scrapers
HER Number
380
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Esplanade West, scrapers
Place
Sunderland
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 recorded the discovery of "reddish yellow scrapers" in this area. Apparently now lost.
Easting
439700
Northing
556100
Grid Reference
NZ439700556100
Sources
<< HER 380 >> 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. 64, no. 23
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 295, F 178
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 23
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, p. 295, F 178