Information for record number MWA111:
Palaeolithic stone handaxe found in Middleton

Summary Find spot - a Palaeolithic handaxe was found in the garden of a house in Church Lane, Middleton.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Lower Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 150001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Middleton
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 18 98
(Data represented on this map shows the current selected record as a single point, this is for illustrative purposes only and does not represent an accurate or complete representation of archaeological sites or features)
Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 A stone Acheulian ovate handaxe was found c 1960 during digging in a back garden at Church Lane, Middleton. The axe was about 0.7mm below the surface and was found in red marl, not in the overlying gravel. Some animal bones were also found, but these were discarded.
2 Lower Palaeolithic date .
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Handaxe found at Middleton
Author/originator: Davies Mr
Date: 1972
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Images:  
There are no images associated with this record.  
back to top

Glossary

 
Word or Phrase
Description  
period Palaeolithic About 500,000 BC to 10,001 BC

Palaeolithic means 'Old Stone Age'.
It covers a very long period from the first appearance in Britain of tool-using humans (about 500,000 years ago) to the retreat of the glacial ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere (about 12,000 years ago).

Archaeologists divide the period up into the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, the Lower Palaeolithic being the oldest phase. This period began many, many years after the dinosaurs became extinct (about 65 million years ago). It was during the Palaeolithic period that modern humans replaced Neanderthals, and megafauna, such as woolly mammoths roamed through the landscape.
more -> 		back
monument HOUSE * A building for human habitation, especially a dwelling place. Use more specific type where known. back
monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument GARDEN * An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables and/or recreational purposes. Use more specific type where known. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

English Heritage National Monuments Record