Information for record number MWA4963:
Mesolithic flint scatter

Summary A flint scatter comprising Mesolithic flint artefacts was found 400m north west of Wolvey Heath.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter, Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Wolvey
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 43 88
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Mesolithic flint scatter located.
2 Dating confirmed as Mesolithic.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Mesolithic flint, Wolvey Heath
Author/originator: Waite B
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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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
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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