Information for record number MWA4600:
Mesolithic flint core 400m SE of Kite Green

Summary Findspot - a flint core, dating to the Mesolithic period, was found 400m south east of Kite Green.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Preston Bagot
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 16 65
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 One Mesolithic core.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites
Author/originator: Wymer J
Date: 1977
Page Number: 239
Volume/Sheet:
   
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Glossary

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

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