Marsden Bay cliffs, flints
Marsden Bay cliffs, flints
HER Number
861
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Marsden Bay cliffs, flints
Place
Marsden
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
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
Under the heading, "Cliff Tops towards Marsden Bay" Gibbs recorded flakes and chips. "Some coast fields bear quantities of flint, most of it ballast, probably carted up with seaweed from the shore". Wymer noted an unknown quantity of flint flakes/blades found by Raistrick on the cliffs near Marsden.
Easting
439800
Northing
565600
Grid Reference
NZ439800565600
Sources
<< HER 861 >> G.B.Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. XIX (for 1929-32), p. 23
A. Raistrick, 1933, The distribution of Mesolithic sites in the north of England, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 31, 141-56
J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20 p. 78
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 161 F34
A. Raistrick, 1933, The distribution of Mesolithic sites in the north of England, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 31, 141-56
J. Wymer, ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, Council British Archaeology, Research Report, No. 20 p. 78
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 161 F34