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Findspot - Mesolithic flint

Summary Findspot - various flint objects dating to the Mesolithic period were found to the north of Kenilworth.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Stoneleigh
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 73
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Finds of worked flint over a period of several years at Crackley, one mile S of Gibbet Hill. In 1949 a microlith, a broken blade, a pot-boiler and other debris were found on a layer of red sand about 0.3m below the ground.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 26NE2
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1961
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 26NE2
   
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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
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 LAYER * An archaeological unit of soil in a horizontal plane which may seal features or be cut through by other features. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument GIBBET * An upright post with projecting arm from which the body of a criminal would be hung in chains after execution. back

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