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Findspot - Mesolithic flint pick

Summary Findspot - a flint pick dating to the Mesolithic period was found 400m north east of Nursery Wood.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Warwick
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 63
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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Find of a Mesolithic pick.
1 Thames pick found by Mr Rodgers, in tree stump hollow.
2 The pick was seen in Warwick Museum. It is of unpatinated flint and has been chipped from a pebble. Part of one side has broken away, probably during manufacture. It has no accession number. The pick was found in 1961 by Mr J Whitaker of 40 Clare Close, Lillington. It lay on the surface of freshly turned gravel. Mr Whitaker was able to point out the site of the find to within 1m.
3 In Warwick Museum.
4 Dating confirmed as Mesolithic.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Meso Sites
Author/originator: Wymer J J
Date: 1977
Page Number: 328
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: WM
Author/originator:
Date:
Page Number: 39NW
Volume/Sheet: Annotated Map
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 26NE2
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1961
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 26NE2
   
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
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 HOLLOW * A hollow, concave formation or place, which has sometimes been dug out. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument NURSERY * A room or a building set aside for infants and young children. 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 WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. back

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