Information for record number MWA1787:
Neolithic Flint Scatter

Summary Findspot - a scatter of flint artefacts of prehistoric date was found 500m south of Outwoods Farm.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter
Period: Early Neolithic - Middle Neolithic (4000 BC - 3001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Great Packington
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 24 84
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 A number of flakes, cores and fragments of Neolithic type, scattered over an area of several hundred square metres in a ploughed field immediately S of Spring Pools; found during the period 1904-6. At a later date during the same period an arable field to the NW of the Pools was found to yield similar remains, and isolated specimens, including 2 cores, have been noticed on adjacent footpaths. It is possible that the adjacent pasture fields would prove equally prolific, but flints have not been noticed on the surrounding arable fields further from the Spring. Flint does not occur naturally in the locality but not far to the W flint pebbles occur in the Glacial sand and gravel deposits and this no doubt was the source of the material. The finds collected numbered 652. Not one complete implement was found, and if the 10 prismatic cores are ignored only 5% showed evidence of secondary working: Elongated scraper .. 3, Discoidal scrapers .. 5, Notched flakes .. 6, trimmed flakes .. 13, Awl .. 1, Arrow point .. 5. Three of the trimmed flakes may have been strike-a-lights. All of the specimens have been deposited in the Museum of the Birmingham Archaeological Society and their crude form led the author to suggest a date at an early stage of the Neolithic.
2 fields under crop. No new finds are known.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 35
Author/originator: Cantrill TC
Date: 1909
Page Number: 99-103
Volume/Sheet: 35
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: OS Card, 20SE1
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1967
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 20SE1
   
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Glossary

 
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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
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 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 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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monument POOL * A small body of water, either natural or artificial. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument PASTURE * A field covered with herbage for the grazing of livestock. back
monument FIELD * An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock. 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 SQUARE * An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees. 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
monument SPRING * A point where water issues naturally from the rock or soil onto the ground or into a body of surface water. back
monument FOOTPATH * A path for pedestrians only. 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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