Information for record number MWA1376:
Findspot - small Group VI neolithic stone axe

Summary Findspot - a stone axe dating to the Neolithic period was found in Lillington.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Early Neolithic - Early Bronze Age (4000 BC - 2351 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Leamington Spa
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 32 67
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 A small ground Celt of green stone, slightly over 7.5 cm long, now in Warwick Museum. Found in 1900.
2 Two rather delicately proportioned Celts from this locality are preserved in Warwick Museum. One, small in size (just over 7.5 cm), of a fine green volcanic rock, is probably that found in 1900.
3 Axe, Group VI. Found c1900.
4 A Neolithic axehead and a skull and drinking cup (PRN 1383) found in a gravel pit in Lillington. The axehead was of greenstone and was about 15 cm below the surface.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 58 Stone Implements of Warwickshire
Author/originator: Shotton FW
Date: 1934
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Volume/Sheet: 58
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Victoria County History, vol 1, Warwickshire
Author/originator: Doubleday H A & Page W (eds)
Date: 1904
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Volume/Sheet: 1
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Stone axes from Lillington
Author/originator: JMM
Date: 1956
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 86
Author/originator: Thomas N
Date: 1974
Page Number: 32
Volume/Sheet: 86
   
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A Neolithic stone axehead found in Lillington
Copyright: Warwickshire County Council
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Neolithic and Bronze Age handaxes and axeheads from Warwickshire
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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 Neolithic About 4000 BC to 2351 BC

The word ‘Neolithic’ means ‘New Stone Age’. Archaeologists split up the Neolithic period into three phases; early, middle and late. The Neolithic period comes after the Mesolithic period and before the Bronze Age.

People in the Neolithic period hunted and gathered food as their ancestors had but they were also began to farm. They kept animals and grew crops. This meant that they were able to settle more permanently in one location instead of constantly moving from place to place to look for food.
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period Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument MUSEUM * A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed. back
monument GRAVEL PIT * A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel. back

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