Information for record number MWA1115:
Palaeolithic hand axe found near Charlecote.

Summary Findspot - a handaxe dating to the Palaeolithic period was found 1km north east of Charlecote.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Lower Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 150001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Charlecote
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 27 57
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 A small hand axe was picked up in 1950 by Dr J Philp. There is an extensive deposit of second terrace gravel at this location. The axe is made from a pebble of pale ochreous flint, and part of the original outer surface remains at the butt end. The point is quite finely worked and shows little trace of wear. Its small size (7.5 x 7 cm) suggests a very late Acheulian date.
2 OS Card.
3 Date given as Lower Palaeolithic.
4 Drawing.
 
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Small hand axe
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 14NE9
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
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Volume/Sheet: 14NE9
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 79
Author/originator: Shotton F W
Date: 1961
Page Number: 121-2
Volume/Sheet: 79
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
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.
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monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument TERRACE * A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit. back

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