Information for record number MWA12760:
Palaeolithic handaxe found in Stockingford, Nuneaton

Summary Quartzite pointed handaxe found in Stockingford, Nuneaton
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Nuneaton and Bedworth
District: Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 33 90
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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Description

  
Source Number  

1 Quartzite pointed handaxe: description and illustration
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Descriptive Text
Title: Descriptions of Palaeolithic tools found by Mr Ron Waite
Author/originator: Graf A
Date: 2011-2014
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Glossary

 
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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

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