Information for record number MWA2670:
Palaeolithic stone & flint artefacts found at Baginton.

Summary Findspot - a number of Palaeolithic stone and flint axes and other implements have been found at Baginton gravel pit.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Middle Palaeolithic (115000 BC - 40001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Baginton
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 33 75
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 A number of Palaeolithic and possible Palaeolithic implements have been found at Baginton gravel pit. Four implements were found at various times prior to 1929. These included a long triangular Acheulean hand-axe made from a Bunter pebble, the pointed end of a flint hand-axe of probable early Acheulean date, an undated flint scraper which is possibly Acheulean, and a crude waterworn flint flake which is possibly the oldest of all four. These implements were probably from an interglacial deposit of gravel.
3 Between 1929 and 1934 three further implements were located, including the pointed end of a stone hand-axe, a triangular flake trimmed on one edge and probably of Levalloisian date, and a possible Palaeolithic rolled flake.
4 The implements were found by searching gravel heaps in a large gravel pit centred at the above grid reference and are now in Coventry Museum.
5 Mentioned in gazetteer as four handaxes and four retouched and flake implements. These were recorded in 1968 as held by Coventry Museu.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Article in serial
Title: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia: Palaeolithic Implements found near Coventry
Author/originator: F W Shotton
Date: 1930
Page Number: 174-181
Volume/Sheet: 6:3
   
Source No: 5
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: 4
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 14NE9
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date:
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Volume/Sheet: 14NE9
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 54
Author/originator: Shotton F W
Date: 1929
Page Number: 72-3
Volume/Sheet: 54
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 58
Author/originator: Shotton F W
Date: 1934
Page Number: 43-4
Volume/Sheet: 58
   
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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 TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Prehistoric About 500,000 BC to 42 AD

The Prehistoric period covers all the periods from the Palaeolithic to the end of the Iron Age.
This is a time when people did not write anything down so there is no documentary evidence for archaeologists to look at. Instead, the archaeologists look at the material culture belonging to the people and the places where they lived for clues about their way of life.

The Prehistoric period is divided into the Early Prehistoric and Later Prehistoric.
The Early Prehistoric period covers the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods.
The Later Prehistoric period covers Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age times.
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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 STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
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
monument GRAVEL PIT * A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel. back

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