Marsden Island, flints

HER Number

862

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Marsden Island, flints

Place

Marsden

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

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

Miket reports three separate discoveries here: (1) 7 flints, including core and scraper, found in 1965; (2) 54 flints, most unworked, found in 1966; (3) scraper, point and several hundred pieces from a probable stack.

Easting

440200

Northing

564800

Grid Reference

NZ440200564800

Sources

<< HER 862 >> R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 94 no. 3