Roker beach, perforated axe hammer
Roker beach, perforated axe hammer
HER Number
57
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Roker beach, perforated axe hammer
Place
Roker
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Axehead
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Neolithic -4,000 to -2,200
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A very worn axe-head, in grey-buff fine-grained micaceous sandstone, with hour-glass perforation was found on Roker Beach, Sunderland, in 1974. The diameter of the axe-head is 28 mm, its max. length, width 95 mm and thickness 55 mm. Whether the find was retained by Sunderland Museum, where its details were recorded, is unknown.
Easting
440800
Northing
559500
Grid Reference
NZ440800559500
Sources
<< HER 57 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, 1976, Early Bronze Age- perforated axe
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 91, 93, no. 1
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 91, 93, no. 1