Information for record number MWA5087:
Palaeolithic Finds found to E of Leicester Grange

Summary Findspot - several Palaeolithic handaxes were found 400m north west of Ash-pole Copse.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Lower Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 150001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Wolvey
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 43 90
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Palaeolithic flint handaxe found in 1985. Distal tip of axe weighing 116 grms, 74mm x 63mm x 25mm. Slightly 'rolled' in appearance. Originally must have been a very substantial Acheulian handaxe.
2 Six further axes, 5 flint and 1 quartz have since been found.
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7 Palaeolithic flint handaxe found by R Waite in 1985. SP43709050
4 A collection of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic artefacts from Leicester Grange.
5 List.
6 Dating confirmed as Lower Palaeolithic.
 
Sources
Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: WM Collection
Author/originator: Wise P
Date: 1995
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Volume/Sheet: A7820-7834
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Two Palaeoliths found NE of Warwickshire
Author/originator: Saville A
Date: 1986
Page Number: 3-6
Volume/Sheet: Lithics no 7
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Unpublished document
Author/originator: Waite B
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1987
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: TBAS vol 99
Author/originator: Wise P J
Date: 1995
Page Number: 123
Volume/Sheet: 99
   
Source No: 7
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Notes and plans from Ron (Barry) Waite which appear to be with John Pickin (not seen)
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1987
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Source No: 6
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
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 Palaeolithic About 500,000 BC to 10,001 BC

Palaeolithic means 'Old Stone Age'.
It covers a very long period from the first appearance in Britain of tool-using humans (about 500,000 years ago) to the retreat of the glacial ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere (about 12,000 years ago).

Archaeologists divide the period up into the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, the Lower Palaeolithic being the oldest phase. This period began many, many years after the dinosaurs became extinct (about 65 million years ago). It was during the Palaeolithic period that modern humans replaced Neanderthals, and megafauna, such as woolly mammoths roamed through the landscape.
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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 GRANGE * An outlying farm or estate, usually belonging to a religious order or feudal lord. Specifically related to core buildings and structures associated with monastic land holding. Use specific term where known. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back

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