Information for record number MWA1543:
Palaeolithic axes found near Little Alne

Summary Findspot - stone and flint axes, dating to the Palaeolithic period, were found near Little Alne.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Middle Palaeolithic (150000 BC - 40001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Aston Cantlow
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 13 61
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 A number of Palaeolithic implements found during ploughing at Little Alne Farm. Those implements chosen for publication consist of 2 sub-triangular handaxes and 2 pointed handaxes, all made from quartzite pebbles: also 1 ovate handaxe and a pointed ovate, these also of quartzite. Also a flint handaxe and a point of lustrous black flint, the latter showing some working suggestive of Le Moustier technique. All the implements have been presented to the British Museum. The source of the pebbles from which the implements are made is not known, but they were probably glacially derived.
2 The Farm is centred on the above grid reference.
3 Reference to 10 handaxes and 1 retouched and flaked implement. The flake has been claimed as Levallois. These are held by the Birmingham University Geology Department.
4 Dating revised to Middle Palaeolithic.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Article in serial
Title: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society: Palaeolithic Implements from Little Alne, Alcester, Warwickshire
Author/originator: E M Clifford
Date: 1943
Page Number: 52-54
Volume/Sheet: 9
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Monograph
Title: A Gazetteer of British Lower & Middle Palaeolithic Sites
Author/originator: Derek A Roe
Date: 1968
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
period Prehistoric About 500,000 BC to 42 AD

The Prehistoric period covers all the periods from the Palaeolithic to the end of the Iron Age.
This is a time when people did not write anything down so there is no documentary evidence for archaeologists to look at. Instead, the archaeologists look at the material culture belonging to the people and the places where they lived for clues about their way of life.

The Prehistoric period is divided into the Early Prehistoric and Later Prehistoric.
The Early Prehistoric period covers the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods.
The Later Prehistoric period covers Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age times.
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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 UNIVERSITY * A group of colleges and associated buildings belonging to a university. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
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 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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