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Findspot - Bronze Age stone axe

Summary Findspot - a Bronze Age palstave, a type of stone axe, was found in the area to the south west of Burton Green.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Middle Bronze Age (1600 BC - 1201 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Kenilworth
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 26 75
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 A Bronze palstave discovered at Burton Green shortly before the 1914-18 war in Arden. Now in Birmingham Museum. A typical palstave. The stop-ridge and loop are well developed but the flanges and butt are slight. The palstave weighs 316.9 grammes, is 15cm long and 5.7cm wide.
3 Bronze looped palstave.
5 Noted in gazetteer.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Photograph
Title: Palstave found near Burton Green
Author/originator: Humphreys H
Date: 1934
Page Number: Fig 1
Volume/Sheet: 58
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 86
Author/originator: Thomas N
Date: 1974
Page Number: 32
Volume/Sheet: 86
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 58
Author/originator: Humphreys H
Date: 1934
Page Number: 49
Volume/Sheet: 58
   
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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 Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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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 WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. 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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