Structure
- Historic Environment Record
- Catalogues
- This record
Leaf shaped arrowhead findspot, Lodge Farm, Binchester
Finds Spot
A prehistoric flint arrowhead was found here in 1992.
ref no. | D3289 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Category | Finds Spot | ||||
Subcategory | Findspot | ||||
Date | -2200, -4000 | ||||
Era | Prehistoric (-500000 to 43), Neolithic – New Stone Age (-4000 to -2100), Mesolithic – Middle Stone Age (-10000 to -4000) | ||||
Tags | Expand
|
Leaf shaped arrowhead findspot, Lodge Farm, Binchester source ref records
k2p prn | her id | ref no | ref originator | ref date | ref title | ref note | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Leaf shaped arrowhead Lodge Farm, Bishop Auckland |
Terms
Term | Description |
---|---|
Flint | Flint is a glassy stone, which was commonly used in the [prehistoric] periods to make tools, such as [microliths]. In the [Post-Medieval] period gun-flints were made. It can be easily shaped by knocking it against other stone, bone or wood. The earliest flint tools were made in the [Palaeolithic], but most flint tools were made in the [Mesolithic] and [Neolithic]. It is being debated if flint use continued into the [Bronze Age] and [Iron Age]. Flint can be found in small amounts of pebbles found in the clays along the coastal strip of Northumberland and Durham. It is likely that there are offshore deposits as well – though the dumping of [ballast] will have confused the picture. |
Prehistoric | General terms for all the periods before the start of historical records. This is mostly before the [Roman] period for Britain – the first mention of the northern [Iron Age] Brigantes tribe is in 49AD. See the specialised entries for [Palaeolithic], [Mesolithic], [Neolithic], [Bronze Age] and [Iron Age]. The time depth of the term can be widened for certain aspects of the northeast's past. |