Information for record number MWA19194:
Quartzite Blade Core, Griff Hollows, Field 5, near Griff Quarry

Summary A prepared blade-core of possible proto-Levallois type of quartzite material was found by Mr Ron Waite in 2012.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Lower Palaeolithic (1000000 BC - 150001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Nuneaton and Bedworth
District: Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 36 89
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Level of Protection Local
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1 A prepared blade-core of possible proto-Levallois type of quartzite material was found by Mr Ron Waite in 2012. This forms part of the Waite collection of Palaeolithic artefacts from the Nuneaton area. It appears to be a rare example in quartzite of core preparation and blade removal found elsewhere, more common in flint, using the Levallois technique. Illustrated.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: West Midlands Archaeology Vol 55
Author/originator: CBA West Midlands
Date: 2013
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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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