A medieval bronze belt tag was found by a resident of Whitburn in 1992 and inspected by Tyne and Wear Museums personnel. The finder retained the item.

A number of medieval metal items have been found at Glebe Farm, Moor Lane, Whitburn by a resident of Whitburn. These items were inspected by Tyne and Wear Museums personnel in 1992. A silver finger ring was found 250 yards south of the main farm building, where the land had been ploughed to a depth of 1 foot. Other items found at the farm include a rectangular buckle, 2 bronze studs, a bronze disc, bronze plaque, and a bronze belt buckle. All date from the period between the 12th and 14th centuries.

A stone ball was found by a National Trust Warden in 1993 while digging holes to reset the cliff top at Frenchman's Bay. The ball was inspected by Tyne and Wear Museums personnel and found to be man-made, fashioned from lava, probably from the Eiffel district. It weighed 11 ounces and had a diameter of 2.5 inches, making it suitable for a small calibre gun. Stone balls of this type were used during the period 1500 – 1600 A.D, the time of the Spanish Armada. The item donated to Tyne and Wear Museums.

Ridge and furrow is shown to the north of Kibblesworth village on an aerial photograph of August 1974. At least part of this has now been built over.

A honey brown leafshaped flint arrowhead of Neolithic date was found in a garden at Hill Street, New Silksworth, Sunderland in August 1996. It was inspected by Tyne and Wear Museums personnel.

Approximately 50 pieces of worked flint wsere found in October - December 1978 in soil dumps after surface stripping for new houses. Most were of poor quality, largely split and trimmed pebbles. The better quality flint included a small round scraper of red/brown mottled flint 20 mm in diameter, a large grey blade, trimmed along one edge, and a arrowhead, 22 mm long of approximately transverse type in brown flint. 3 or 4 small cores of circa 30 metres in length were also recovered. The flint has a generally Neolithic appearance. A quantity of black pottery was found in the same field and when the field was stripped, a number of features, dark patches, roughly circular in shape and 0.5 metres to 1 metre across, appeared in the subsoil in the south-west corner. These were not investigated and the site has now been destroyed by housing. The finds remained in the possession of the finder.

A well found at St. Anthony's Tar Works, Walker was built in English garden wall bond brickwork with a stone capping stone and stone capping on the two side walls. The capping stone had the remains of iron railings at the front end. It measured 0.90 metres across the front, 1.07 metres deep and 2.3 metres high internally. A thick accretion of tar covered all the walls near water level.

A bronze socketed axe, 78 metres long, of middle or late Bronze Age date was found by a resident of Crawcrook in Ryton. It was inspected at the Museum of Antiquities in Newcastle.

Four Roman coins were reported to Tyne and Wear Museums in July 1994. These four, along with a fifth already reported were reputedly found "within a pouch which subsequently disintegrated". Coin 1 - on the obverse face (front) is a bust facing right. On th ereverse (back) is the legend, G]LOR[IA EXERCITVS] .TRP, along with two standing soldiers flanking a single standard. This was mlinted in Trier (now Germany) in the period 335-341 A.D. This is a bronze coin in good condition. Coin 2 - on the obverse face is the legend, ]CONSTANTIUS AVG[, and a bust facing right. On the reverse is thelegend, [GLORIA EXERCITVS], and two standing soldiers flanking single standard. This bronze coin was minted in the period 335-341 A.D. Coin 3 - on the obverse face is the legend, FL MAX THE [ODORAE AVG], and a bust with elaborate hairstyle and mantle. On the reverse is the legend, [PIE]TAS [ROMANA], with Pietas standing, head to right, carrying an infant at her breast. This bronze coin was minted in the period 337-340 A.D. Coin 4 - on the obverse face is a bust facing right, and on the reverse the legend, SECURITAS [REIPUBLICAE], with Victory walking to left, a wreath in one hand, palm in the other. This bronze coin was minted in the period 365-378 A.D. The fifth coin, has on its obverse face a draped bust, facing right, and the legend, DNVALEN[. On the reverse face is Victory walking left, holding a wreath and palm, and the legend, SECURITAS[.This bronze coin was minted in the late 4th century. It should be noted that there is little provenance for these finds.

In November 1996 two members of the pubic from St George's Estate, Harraton, Washington brought an unusual Romano-British brooch to Arbeia Roman Fort for identification. The brooch is a chatelaine brooch, which originally would have had a small toilet set, consisting of tweezers, nail cleaner and ear scoop, suspended from it. These are now missing. The main part of the brooch, decorated with enamel of three colours, is in good condition. Brooches of this type date to the 2nd century A.D. They are extremely rare, just 15 other examples being known, only one of which was found in the North. Two from East Anglia closely resemble the Harraton brooch.