Jarrow Slake, flint axes
Jarrow Slake, flint axes
HER Number
490
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow Slake, flint axes
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Axe
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Two flint axes, one 7.25 in x 3.5 in at the broadest part and of a deep red-brown colour, the other 5.25 in x 2.25 in and white, were found in 1860 in alluvial soil at the estuary of the Don near Jarrow during the construction of Tyne Dock. It was suggested that they had come in ballast. Both are now lost.
Easting
434000
Northing
565000
Grid Reference
NZ434000565000
Sources
<< HER 490 >> Archaeologia Aeliana, 1861, Flint Implements, 2, V, p. 102
J. Evans, 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements...of Great Britain, 2nd edition, p. 101
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 9
W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, p. 199n
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 78, no. 3
J. Evans, 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements...of Great Britain, 2nd edition, p. 101
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 9
W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, p. 199n
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 78, no. 3