Information for record number MWA2168:
Findspot - Mesolithic flint

Summary Findspot - a Mesolithic flint tool, a blade was found near Guys Cliffe but the exact location of the Findspot is unknown.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Warwick
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 66
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Notched blade, Mesolithic, from near Guys Cliffe. Now in Warwick Museum.
2 Point located at SP290665 to represent a 500m grid area covering Guy's Cliffe, the grounds and the eastern banks of the Avon. The exact location is unknown.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: WM
Author/originator:
Date: 1975
Page Number: 1110
Volume/Sheet: Accession Card
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Personal Comment
Author/originator: Ben Wallace
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source WM Warwickshire Museum Aerial Photograph Collection. A collection of oblique and vertical aerial photographs and taken by various organisations and individuals, including the Royal Airforce, The Potato Board, Warwickshire Museum. The collection is held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
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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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

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