Information for record number MWA2177:
Palaeolithic handaxe found near Bishops Tachbrook

Summary Find spot - a Palaeolithic handaxe was found 1km north-west of Bishop's Tachbrook.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Early Lower Palaeolithic - Late Middle Palaeolithic (1000000 BC - 40001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Bishops Tachbrook
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 30 62
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Acheulian handaxe 84 mm by 65 mm found at Heathcote in soil dumped at the sewage works from excavation of the filter beds. Donated in April 1959.
2 A small, thin, almost ovate biface handaxe found in April 1959 on a soil dump. The soil came from the filter beds at the above grid reference. Probably from 4th terrace gravel.
3 The handaxe was found at the sewage works, but traced to gravel from the SP 309 621 in the load of gravel brought to the site.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Monograph
Title: A Gazetteer of British Lower & Middle Palaeolithic Sites
Author/originator: Derek A Roe
Date: 1968
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: WM
Author/originator: WM
Date:
Page Number: A198
Volume/Sheet: Catalogue
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Serial
Title: PCNHSS vol 3 no 4
Author/originator: Shotton F W
Date: 1960
Page Number: 110-2
Volume/Sheet: 3:4
   
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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
technique excavation Archaeologists excavate sites so that they can find information and recover archaeological materials before they are destroyed by erosion, construction or changes in land-use.

Depending on how complicated and widespread the archaeological deposits are, excavation can be done by hand or with heavy machinery. Archaeologists may excavate a site in a number of ways; either by open area excavation, by digging a test pit or a trial trench.
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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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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 FILTER BED * A tank or pond containing a layer of sand etc, for filtering large quantities of liquid. back
monument SEWAGE WORKS * A group of buildings in which local sewage is filtered and purified in large rectangular or circular tanks. back
monument TERRACE * A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit. back

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