Gibbs recorded the discovery of a cist burial at Langham Tower, perhaps in the 1920s, but added no details. W. Dodds informed Young that flint was found in the cist but this was not traced by Young, and must be presumed lost. The O.S. could not find Langham Tower, and so located this entry on the wrong map, - see above.

In 1842 two human skeletons were discovered on Building Hill. The first, supposedly an adult female, was reported on 18 Feb., having been found "about three feet below the surface, near the footpath of Building Hill quarry...The bones were very much decayed. There are no circumstances connected with the occurrence from which it can be ascertained how long it had lain, or under what circumstances it was deposited". On 29 Sept. a second "was disentombed by Mr. William Jefferson, when laying open the rock to procure stone". Richardson explicitly quotes "Local Papers" as the source for the latter discovery. The second hand reference to "doubtful implements from Building Hill", and a much later reference to a barrow there are too uncertain to justify a prehistoric date.

A perforated axe-hammer of greenstone, with oval bi-conical hole, was found at Millfield. Length 181 mm, max. width 62 mm, thickness 70 mm. In the Greenwell Collection when Evans described it, it had passed to Dr Sturge by 1905, and is now in the British Museum.

Found in 1849 while dredging the River Wear, "from a depth of 10 feet below the bed of the river Wear, or 16 feet below low-water mark, about 300 or 400 yards above Sunderland Bridge". It was described as "of mottled greenstone, beautifully finished; the sides are, however, flat and not hollowed. It is 6.5 inches long, the faces are rounded, and the hole, which is about seven- eighths inch in diameter, tapers slightly towards the middle". Miket describes it as "hour glass perforation". Thomas Meik Esq. C.E. presented the axe-hammer to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, from whose museum in the Black Gate it was stolen in 1947.

"Length 44 mm, width 34 mm, thickness 10 mm. Found in an allotment no. 67, in 1931".

A rough flint axe was found at Pallion, in c. 1884, when Doxford's Shipyard was enlarged. It was given to Sunderland Museum in 1944 but is now missing.

A polished stone axe was found 30 feet below the waterline at Austin and Pickersgill's Shipyard, (probably Southwick Yard), in 1976 by G. Hindmarch, of 3 Perth Square, Plains Square, Sunderland. Length 100 mm, max. width 59 mm, thickness 33 mm.

Described as a rapier by sources 1, 2 and 4, a dirk by 3 and the O.S., it is said to have been found on the north shore of the Wear at (sic, or opposite ?) Claxheugh. It is complete except for one torn rivet hole, the bevel lines are less straight than usual, small butt, length 326 mm. An example of Class IV, "blade with flat or flattish mid-section".

A bronze sword is said to have been dredged from the River Wear, between Hylton Dene and Park's Nook, in either 1855 (Mitchell) or 1885 (Potts). In 1892 it was in the possession of H.H. Wake, but its present whereabouts are unknown. In the earliest O.S. reference it is said to be Roman, but this view was later withdrawn when the supporting evidence was found to have been destroyed. Miket clearly believed it to be prehistoric, and thought that, because 386 had been dredged up in the same area by a Mervyn Wake, there might have been confusion, and 386 and 388 were perhaps the same object.

With another sword (386), dredged from the River Wear at Ford, Hylton, in ? 1830. The date is from the O.S. card, Miket does not report it. Of Ewart Park type; hilt altered in modern times. Length 501 mm, max. width 42mm.