Information for record number MWA19196:
Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint scatter, The Rylands, Long Lawford

Summary A flint assemblage discovered by local walkers was brought to Warwickshire Museum Field Services for identification. The diagnostic pieces indicate a late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date. Finds included two possible cores, a core rejuvination flake and fragments of two blades.
What Is It?  
Type: Lithic Scatter
Period: Late Mesolithic - Middle Neolithic (7000 BC - 3301 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Long Lawford
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 45 72
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Level of Protection Local
Description

  
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1 A flint assemblage discovered by local walkers was brought to Warwickshire Museum Field Services for identification. The diagnostic pieces indicate a late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date. Finds included two possible cores, a core rejuvination flake and fragments of two blades.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: West Midlands Archaeology Vol 53
Author/originator: CBA West Midlands
Date: 2011
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Glossary

 
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period Mesolithic About 10,000 BC to 4001 BC

Mesolithic means 'Middle Stone Age'. It is the period that comes between the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) and the Neolithic (New Stone Age).

The Mesolithic period is a period of transition from the way people were living during the Palaeolithic period as hunter-gatherers to the development of farming in the Neolithic period.
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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 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 LITHIC SCATTER * A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of lithic artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context. Use particular types where appropriate. back

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