Target Rock, flint flake
Target Rock, flint flake
HER Number
836
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Target Rock, flint flake
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Flake
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Gibbs recorded the discovery of a flint flake on a stack at Target Rock, "close to Trow Rocks, in a thin layer of clay on top". Its present location is obscure.
Easting
438300
Northing
566700
Grid Reference
NZ438300566700
Sources
<< HER 836 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, XIX (for 1929-32), 23
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 9
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 295 F 180
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 9
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 295 F 180