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Findspot - Bronze Age palstave

Summary Findspot - a Bronze Age palstave was found in an area south of Ridge Lane.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Middle Bronze Age (1600 BC - 1201 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Bentley
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 94
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Middle Bronze Age palstave found at Hartshill.
2 The palstave was found by the finder probably while he was farming an area of land at Ridge Lane.
3 It was impossible to tie the grid reference down more closely.
4 Purchased by Warwick Museum.
 
Sources
Source No: 4
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: WM
Author/originator:
Date: 1982
Page Number: 3174
Volume/Sheet: Accession Card
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Palstave found, Bentley/Mancetter
Author/originator: Jones G R
Date: 1982
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Palstave found, Bentley/Mancetter
Author/originator: Jones G R
Date: 1982
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Museum Enquiry Form
Title:
Author/originator: JMM
Date: 1982
Page Number: 1366
Volume/Sheet: Enquiry
   
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source WM Warwickshire Museum Aerial Photograph Collection. A collection of oblique and vertical aerial photographs and taken by various organisations and individuals, including the Royal Airforce, The Potato Board, Warwickshire Museum. The collection is held at 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 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

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