Information for record number MWA5000:
Findspot - Mesolithic flints

Summary Findspot - several flint blades of Mesolithic date were found on the east side of Edgehill Covert.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Tysoe
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 36 46
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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Description

  
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1 Flints found in 1986: Six broken blade fragments. These are narrow blades and therefore possibly indicative of Mesolithic activity, but there are no diagnostic pieces.
2 Dating confirmed as Mesolithic.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Museum Enquiry Form
Title: WMEF 550
Author/originator: WM
Date: 1986
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 550
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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source WMEF Warwickshire Museum Enquiry Form. These are forms that are filled in when a person brings an object to Warwickshire Museum to be identified. Amongst the information recorded on the form are details such as a description of the object, where and when it was found, and in some cases a sketch or photographs of it. Copies of the form can be viewed at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
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

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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