Ashburn, ? Flints
Ashburn, ? Flints
HER Number
385
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ashburn, ? Flints
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Artefact Scatter
Site Type: Specific
Flint Scatter
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1939 Gibbs recorded the discovery of "blue patinated artifacts" from the boulder clay in the Ashburn area. The objects are presumed lost.
Easting
439000
Northing
555000
Grid Reference
NZ439000555000
Sources
<< HER 385 >> Antiquities of Sunderland, G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series,Vol. 161, pp. 294-5, F 176
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series,Vol. 161, pp. 294-5, F 176