Grindon, Mesolithic flints
Grindon, Mesolithic flints
HER Number
232
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Grindon, Mesolithic flints
Place
Grindon
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
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
In 1905 R. Paxton recovered "flints and scrapers" during the quarrying of sand and gravel at Grindon, and in 1928 a large flake was found on the same site. Wymer records one core, two blades/flakes and a micro-burin from this site at Sunderland Museum, donated by Raistrick, and two blades/flakes at Skipton Museum. Sunderland Museum holds flakes, a scraper and a microlith all labelled 'Grindon 1905'.
Easting
435900
Northing
554600
Grid Reference
NZ435900554600
Sources
<< HER 232 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-30), p. 25
J. Wymer ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, C.B.A. Research Report, No. 20, p. 86
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 72, no. 9.3
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 153-4, F 24
J. Wymer ed. 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, C.B.A. Research Report, No. 20, p. 86
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 72, no. 9.3
R. Young , 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 153-4, F 24