Information for record number MWA1351:
Early Palaeolithic handaxe found near Brandon Wood.

Summary Findspot - an Early Palaeolithic hand axe was found at Deniff's gravel pit, 300m south of Brandon Wood.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Lower Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 150001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Brandon and Bretford
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 38 76
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 An axe picked up from the floor of Denniff's gravel pit in 1973. Axe is a pointed ovate, length 142 mm, breadth 80 mm, thickness 40 mm. An excellent shape in rather intractable material. Material is fine epidotised andesitic tuff and is unusual for a Palaeolithic axe. Probably a glacial erratic. The axe may have been derived from No 4 terrace gravels, although this is uncertain.
2 Dated as Lower Palaeolithic.
3 Correspondence from 1972.
4 Photograph referred to in
3.
5 Drawing.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Brandon handaxe
Author/originator: Fennell, J.F.M.
Date: 1972
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Source No: 5
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Hand-axe found in Brandon
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Date: 1972
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Photograph
Title: Hand-axe found at Brandon
Author/originator: Fennell J
Date: 1972
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: PCNHSS vol 5 no 1
Author/originator: Shotton F W and Fennell J F M
Date: 1977
Page Number: 15-17
Volume/Sheet: 5, no 1
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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Glossary

 
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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.
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monument FLOOR * A layer of stone, brick or boards, etc, on which people tread. Use broader site type where known. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument GRAVEL PIT * A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel. 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 TERRACE * A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit. back

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