Information for record number MWA10347:
Flint tools from Middleton

Summary Mesolithic tools found in Middleton
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Middleton
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 18 97
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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Description

  
Source Number  

1 Blades and flakes found at SP188979.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Settlement & Land Use in Sutton Chase
Author/originator: Hodder M
Date: 1988
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Glossary

 
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Description  
period Mesolithic About 10,000 BC to 4001 BC

Mesolithic means 'Middle Stone Age'. It is the period that comes between the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) and the Neolithic (New Stone Age).

The Mesolithic period is a period of transition from the way people were living during the Palaeolithic period as hunter-gatherers to the development of farming in the Neolithic period.
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monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back

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