Whitburn, Souter Point, flints

HER Number

857

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Whitburn, Souter Point, flints

Place

Whitburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Artefact Scatter

Site Type: Specific

Flint Scatter

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Miket records the discovery, before 1965, of 55 flints including points and cores, from Souter Point. Three of the flints showed signs of use, and two are cores.

Easting

441500

Northing

562700

Grid Reference

NZ441500562700

Sources

<< HER 857 >> R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 95 no. 11