Information for record number MWA12455:
Lithic scatter, Birdingbury Parish

Summary A collection of flints were recorded during fieldwalking undertaken in 2005. The flints appeared to be in a loose scatter and so do not represent specific settlement sites. They range in date from Mesolithic to Iron Age.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter
Period: Early Mesolithic - Iron Age (10000 BC - 601 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Birdingbury
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 43 67
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 A collection of flints were recorded during fieldwalking undertaken in 2005. The flints appeared to be in a loose scatter and so do not represent specific settlement sites. They range in date from Mesolithic to Iron Age. 13 flints were recorded from this field. The field was labelled as DP01. One tool from this field was a characteristic microlith.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: West Midlands Archaeology vol 48
Author/originator: S Watt (ed.)
Date: 2005
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Glossary

 
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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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period Iron Age About 800 BC to 43 AD

The Iron Age comes after the Bronze Age and before the Roman period. It is a time when people developed the skills and knowledge to work and use iron, hence the name ‘Iron Age’ which is given to this period. Iron is a much tougher and more durable metal than bronze but it also requires more skill to make objects from it. People continued to use bronze during this period.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back
monument FIELD * An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock. back
monument FLINT SCATTER * A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of flint artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context. back

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