Information for record number MWA431:
Mesolithic flint scatter, Great Packington.

Summary A flint scatter comprising flint artefacts of Mesolithic date was found 600m west of Kinwalsey.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Great Packington
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 25 85
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Surface finds. Four flint cores, 30 retouched flakes and blades, 92 flakes and blades.
2 Found pre c1950.
3 Four cores, 93 unretouched blades and flakes, four scrapers, two microliths.
4 Information on the site.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites
Author/originator: Wymer J J
Date: 1977
Page Number: 329
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Mesolithic site at Packington
Author/originator: Barry Waite
Date:
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Map
Title: Annotated map
Author/originator: Morris J M
Date: 1957
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: SP26SE
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: Accession Card
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Date:
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 1112
   
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Glossary

 
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Description  
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 SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument FLINT SCATTER * A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of flint artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context. back

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