On 11 May 1930 a cist burial was unearthed by some boys at the top of a south facing slope west of the Summerhouse on Summerhouse Hill. The cist and contents, viz. two (or parts of two) skeletons and a beaker, were recovered by the curator of the Hancock Museum and the position, but not the details, of the find published by W. Bulmer. The cist was apparently constructed of two end and four side stones, with a coverstone. It was originally set up in the Hancock Museum and later, (?1970s), moved to a site in the musuem garden at the side of Claremont Road.

A cist burial was found on 15 Nov. 1939 during the S extension of the petrol station at Bewes Hill near Blaydon. The cist was emptied by G.W. Temperley, then hon. secretary, Hancock Museum, who found in it a skeleton and a Food Vessel.(1) There is no description of the cist, published or unpublished, but there exist 3 photos of it with the lid off and skeleton just visible inside, notes and letter(s).(2) W.A. Cocks apparently had cist and skeleton in his possession in 1952, having re-erected the cist in his garden. The underside of its capstone bore an incised U-shaped groove, c. 2" wide and set about 3" from the edge of the stone. (This cist, he said, was "not to be confused with the smaller one in the rockery").(3) The cist was subsequently moved, presumably after Cocks' death, to the grounds of the Ryton UDC offices, and the capstone placed upside down, groove uppermost.

A Food Vessel was found in Axwell Park sand quarry near the Blaydon-Swalwell road on 7 September 1934, not in a cist. The OS recorded that the quarry belonged to E.R. Davidson & Son, and was closed by 1952. The pot was subsequently put on display in Blaydon East Secondary Modern School, Shibdon Road, Blaydon. A bipartite bowl, 117 mm high and with a rim diam of 140 mm, in a light brown fabric with black core. The decoration covers the whole of the outside of the pot, and has been impressed with a six-toothed comb or serrated piece of wood in encircling lines and chevrons. There is a single row of finger-nail impressions on the bevelled rim. Miket notes that it contained cremated bone when found, but gives no source for this - perhaps the Hancock Museum Accessions Book which is cited by the OS for the discovery of this and SMR 599.

Frags of an almost complete beaker were found 2.5 ft deep in fine gravel in Axwell Park sand quarry nr. Blaydon-Swalwell road, 29.iii.1934. OS recorded quarry belonged to E.R. Davidson & Son, and was closed by 1952. Restored by Russell Goddard, Hancock Museum, and displayed in Blaydon East Modern School. Tait: Beaker is in reddish brown fabric with black core, 16.8 cm tall and 13 cm rim diam and has slight omphalos base. Decorated with impressed lines of finely twisted cord on upper part only and five similar lines on inside below rim, a common feature on cord-zoned beakers. In form and fabric it is similar to bell-beaker series. "As no mention was made of a cist enclosing the beaker when it was found it may be assumed that it had been deposited with a burial either in a pit or shallow grave and this would fit well with the evidence from other collared beaker burials where the use of a stone cist is exceptional".

This battered stone axe was said to have been found in Blaydon, probably before 1940,(1) and in 1968 was among a small group of prehistoric material in Blaydon East Secondary Modern School, Shibdon Road, Blaydon. Tait describes it thus: "The stone axe 11.3 cm. long by 5.6 cm. wide and 2.5 cm. thick appears to have suffered severely under great heat with the result that the surface has cracked and flaked off. The cutting edge and about 2 cm. on either side is polished but it is impossible to say whether this was the total extent of the polishing or if it had at one time been polished overall. The colour of the stone is now reddish brown but this may be the result of the burning".

A bronze spearhead was dredged from the Tyne near Blaydon, and bought by Mr. Gibson for the Society of Antiquaries in 1864. It is described by Miket as a side-looped spearhead with leaf-shaped blade. The loops are lozenge-shaped. 194 mm long x 53 mm max width x 23 mm max diameter of socket. It is probably included in the list of "Ancient British Implements of Bronze" etc. referred to in a lecture by Canon Greenwell. On exhibition.

This logboat was revealed as a result of a big flood in the Tyne, and found on 18 March 1881. One end of the boat was "sticking out above the sand, between high and low water-mark, about 50 yds. above Scotswood Railway Bridge, on the south side of the Tyne...". When it was dug out of the sand it was "jet black and as soft as a ripe cheese".(1) W. A. Hoyle of Denton dried it out, and subsequently displayed it at Denton Hall.(2) Many years later Dodds reported that, when it was "in the last stages of disintegration, samples were submitted to a dendrochronologist who returned the surprising date of +/- B.C. 5!!". He does not say when this happened, or where the boat was at that time. It probably no longer exists, but there is no information about its final fate. Heslop suggests that the log boat survived because it was buried in the river bed when it was dry or reduced by seasonal drought and that it was a votive offering in the same tradition as the deposition of metal objects in the preceding Bronze Age.

A Food Vessel Urn was found in May 1928 in a sand pit on the north side of Beweshill Lane, and published, and presented to the Society of Antiquaries, by Parker Brewis and J.D. Cowen. It is described by Miket as an Enlarged Food Vessel, and by Gibson and Cowie as a Food Vessel Urn, though Gibson also introduces the earlier term "Encrusted Urn". Its dimensions: 33.2 cm high x 29.3 cm rim diam x 10.6 cm base diam. Principal decorative features: almost vertical whipped cord maggots on the rim moulding, incised herringbone below the rim, applied chevrons, above six horizontal grooves, 3 rows of vertical incisions separating 2 rows of circular stabs, and on the lower part of the pot 2 rows of incised chevrons.

Slug knife, in opaque grey flint, 68 mm x 27 mm x 16 mm. It was found in 1955 by the Rev. L.T. Johnson, The Manse, Ryton, in topsoil on the western edge of McAlpine's sand quarry at Bewes Hills, south-east of Stargate, and donated by him in 1958 to the Museum of Antiquities where it is on exhibition.

A flat bronze axe was found in 1951 by G. Callender, of 6 Masters Crescent, Castle Dean, Prudhoe, who sold it to the Museum of Antiquities in 1952. He found it protruding from a cutting in the sand quarry at Bewes Hill, about 4 feet below ground surface. In the museum records it is described as in fair condition, slightly battered, with a rudimentary top ridge. 135 mm x 67 mm x 8 mm. On exhibition.