High Haining, flints

High Haining, flints

HER Number
252
District
Sunderland
Site Name
High Haining, flints
Place
High Haining
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
Flint flakes and scrapers have been recorded in a field to the E-S-E of High Haining Farm at a higher point on the same ridge as that occupied by Warden Law cairn. None of this material can now be traced but may be in the Skipton Museum.
Easting
435800
Northing
550800
Grid Reference
NZ435800550800
Sources
<< HER 252 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 26
J.J. Wymer, 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, CBA Research Report, No. 20, p. 410
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 73, no. 19
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, Vol. 161, pp. 154-5,F25