Information for record number MWA2772:
Palaeolithic handaxes found near Wolvey

Summary Findspot - five Palaeolithic handaxes were found 1km north west of Wolvey.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Burton Hastings
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 42 88
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  
Five probable palaeolithic axes: 3 flint, 1 quartzite, 1 uncertain. Also flakes and rolled chipping tools.
1 Small flint handaxe found in 1972.
2 Location plan.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Plan
Title: Findspot near Burton Hastings
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: An Acheulian Flint Hand-Axe From Near Burton Hastings
Author/originator: PCNHSS vol 4, no 7: Saville, A. and Shotton, F. W.
Date: 1973
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Glossary

 
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Description  
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 FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back

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