Microliths and other Mesolithic flints were found at Sandle Holes (NZ 313895 - 'A') and Element Head (NZ 317892 - 'B'). They lay directly on top of a 3ft layer of boulder clay, surmounted by a layer of sandy soil, larger flints of a Neolithic type constituted a separate layer. At a few points on the cliff, the flints can be seen in situ. In all, about 1500 flints were found. Of the three sites in the area, two are on the eroded cliff edge, and the other has been destroyed by quarrying. (1)

The eroded cliff edge at both Element Head and Sandle Holes was examined without any flints being found. A sand pit at NZ 307 897 is the only 'quarry' in the vicinity, and is presumably the third site mentioned. (2)

Mesolithic flints found at Newbiggin. Finds in the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne, accession no 1964.6.1 and 1979.59; in Sunderland Museum, accession no 230-1964-202, 204-1972 and 113.1964-1; and in the Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire accession no 1942-71. (3)

Mesolithic artifacts from Newbiggin:-
(i) Beacon Point (NZ 317890) two scrapers. In collection of John Davies, unpublished;
(ii) Sandle Holes (NZ 310888) two microliths. In Museum of Antiquities and Sunderland Museum;
(iii) Element Head (NZ 320890) five microliths and one scraper. In collection of J Davies and in Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne. (4)

Element Head, mesolithic habitation site at Newbiggin. Flint and other stone tools collected over time by Rev Tom Heyes. Collection contains 89 items - 1 core, 4 core trimmings, 1 microlith, 1 microburin, 13 blades, 47 waste fragments, 20 fire-crackled waste fragments, 1 stone rubber, one pebble. No round flake scrapers.
Small broken round flake scraper in large patch of peat on the shore c.500m south of element head, found by T Heyes. (5)

c.NZ 320890 Element Head, two flint sites on cliff edge.
c.NZ 310888 Sandle Holes, flints from the first 1ft of soil above sandstone. Finds in Museum of Antiquities and Sunderland Museum. (6)

PaMeLA id 13087, artefact id 21317 to 21319; PaMeLA id 13090, artefact id 21329 (retouched tool, class 5 of brown flint in Skipton Museum).
Element Head/Sandy Hole: two sites on the cliff edge, producing 1,500 flints between them. Now removed by erosion ; 'Very similar to Lyne Hill'. PaMeLA id 13092.
Elements Head: On Newbiggin Point, from an 8ft. cliff on part of the map called Element's Head. Found scattered along several hundred yards of cliff but concentrated over an area of 4-5yds diameter. Cliff eroding fast. (PaMeLA id 13091, arefact id 21330 to 21335.
Sandle Holes: 50ft cliff on boulder clay covered by blown sand. Thin layer of humus above rock over area of 100yds at north end of golf course. Quarrying evident in the area. Museum of Antiquities accession number 1964.6.1-6 box 104a and Sunderland Museum accession number 113.1964(f) and 203.1972. PaMeLA id 13093, artefact id 21336 to 21346.
Newbiggin: Collected 1959 by W Dodds, Durham University. Either Trenchmann's site or Sandle Holes site. PaMeLa id 13102, artefact id 21376 to 21379. (7)