Information for record number MWA2320:
Mesolithic flint objects NE of Cawley's Covert

Summary Findspot - flint objects, dating to the Mesolithic period, were found 400m north east of Cawley's Covert.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Brailes
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 39
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Mesolithic flint cores and blades were among the material recovered from around Highwall Spinney, Brailes Hill after reports of flint finds from the farmer.
2 Two other possible Mesolithic flints, in the possession of the farmer, were brought in for identification.
3 A quantity of other flint objects were picked up from the surface.
4 OS card
5 Fourteen waste flakes, no retouch. Undated.
6 Drawing of one of the flints in
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Sources
Source No: 6
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Flint found in Highwall Spinney
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: Flint finds, Brailes
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 05NE29
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1981
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Volume/Sheet: 05NE29
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Record Card/Form
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Author/originator: WM
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Page Number: A2
Volume/Sheet: Accession Card
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: WMANS no 17
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Date: 1974
Page Number: 44
Volume/Sheet: 17
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: PWF
Date: 1983
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Volume/Sheet: PRN 2387
   
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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 SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
source WMANS West Midlands Archaeological News Sheet, a publication that was produced each year, this later became West Midlands Archaeology. The West Midlands Arcaheological News Sheet contains reports about archaeological work that was carried out in the West Midlands region in the previous year. It includes information about sites dating from the Prehistoric to the Post Medieval periods. It was produced the Department of Extramural Studies at Birmingham University. Copies are 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

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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