Information for record number MWA5088:
Palaeolithic handaxes found near Bramcote.

Summary Findspot - several Palaeolithic handaxes were found in an area 300m south east of Bramcote Hospital.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Burton Hastings
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 40 89
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 26 axes found during field work. These included 15 flint, 6 quartz, and 5 possible examples. Flint chipping tools were also noted.
2 Plan.
3 A collection of Palaeolithic quartzite artefacts from Bramcote Hill acquired by Warwick Museum.
4 List
5 Four Palaeolithic quartzite artefacts from Burton Hastings acquired by Warwick Museum.
6 List of flints found at this location.
7 Surface finds of 20 handaxes of flint and quartzite and 50 flakes.
8
9 26 probable axes found by Mr B Waite during field work. These included 15 flint, 6 quartz, and 5 probable examples. Flint chipping tools were also noted. SP40608907
 
Sources
Source No: 6
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: WM Collection
Author/originator: Wise P
Date: 1995
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Volume/Sheet: A7820-7834
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 99
Author/originator: Wise P J
Date: 1995
Page Number: 123
Volume/Sheet: 99
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: WM Collection
Author/originator: Wise P
Date: 1995
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: A7820-7834
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 99
Author/originator: Wise P J
Date: 1995
Page Number: 123
Volume/Sheet: 99
   
Source No: 7
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Palaeolithic Rivers Survey
Author/originator: Wessex Archaeology
Date: 1997 approx
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Plan
Title: Plan
Author/originator: Waite B
Date:
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Palaeolothic finds in Bramcote, Wolvey Heath and Shelford
Author/originator: Waite B
Date:
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Source No: 8
Source Type: Unpublished document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: 9
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1987
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Glossary

 
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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
technique Field work The term ‘field work’ refers to any work that is undertaken in the out-doors or, as archaeologists sometimes say, ‘in the field’. It usually involves the recovery of primary evidence by archaeologists carrying out an excavation, field survey and/or aerial survey. 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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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
monument HOSPITAL * An establishment providing medical or surgical treatment for the ill or wounded. Use narrower term where possible. back

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