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Findspot - Mesolithic flint

Summary Findspot - Mesolithic flint artefacts were found under what is now the northern most roundabout of the Warwick bypass. The finds may indicate an occupation or working site.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Leek Wootton and Guys Cliffe
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 67
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 22 cores, 103 flakes and blades were found in a field which is now the northern-most roundabout of the Warwick By-Pass.The site was probably an occupation or working site.
2 The finds are now in the County Museum.
3 Sixteen cores, 85 unretouched blades and flakes, five scrapers.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: PCNHS
Author/originator:
Date: 1933
Page Number: 65
Volume/Sheet: 1, No 4
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites
Author/originator: Wymer J J
Date: 1977
Page Number: 329
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: WM Catalogue
Author/originator:
Date:
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 1143
   
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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 ROUNDABOUT * A circular construction at the intersection of two or more roads to aid the passage of vehicles from one road to another. 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 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

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