Information for record number MWA12353:
Lower Palaeolithic Andesite axe from Wood Farm, Bubbenhall

Summary A lower palaeolithic handaxe, made from andesite, was found during observation of new faces at Wood Farm, Bubbenhall.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Lower Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 150001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Bubbenhall
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 37 71
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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1 A lower palaeolithic handaxe, made from andesite, was found during observation of new faces at Wood Farm, Bubbenhall. This comes from the Baginton Formation, 1km north-east of an extraction area which in the 1980s produced a number of Lower palaeolithic artefacts.
2 This handaxe and other tools, cores and roughouts, a total assemblage of 70 artefacts, was recovered between 2004 and 2006, although only the andesite handaxe was firmly in situ. This article re-evaluates the assemblage from the floodplain of the Bytham River, in its context as a pre-Anglian occupation site.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Article in serial
Title: A Lower Palaeolithic industry from the Cromerian (MIS 13) Baginton Formation of Waverley Wood and Wood Farm Pits, Bubbenhall, Warwickshire, UK
Author/originator: Keen D H, Hardaker T, Lang A O
Date: 2006
Page Number: 457-470
Volume/Sheet: 21.5
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: Lithics: 24
Author/originator: The Lithics Studies Society
Date: 2003
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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 PIT * A hole or cavity in the ground, either natural or the result of excavation. Use more specific type where known. back
monument WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. back
monument OCCUPATION SITE * A site showing some signs of occupation but evidence is insufficient to imply permanent settlement. back
monument FARM * A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc. Use more specific type where known. back

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