Information for record number MWA5764:
Findspot - Possible Bronze Age Sherd, Polesworth

Summary Findspot - a sherd of pottery dating to the Bronze Age was recovered 50m southwest of Kisses Barn Farm.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Early Bronze Age (2600 BC - 1601 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Polesworth
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SK 27 02
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 A sherd of possibly either Collared Urn or Food Vessel was recovered during an archaeological evaluation carried out by the Warwickshire Museum on land at Kisses Barn Farm, Polesworth, in October 1992 (EWA847).
2 Dating given as Early Bronze Age.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Evaluation Report
Title: Kisses' Barn Farm, Polesworth, Warwickshire Archaeological Evaluation
Author/originator: Palmer S
Date: 1992
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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

 
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period Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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monument URN * A garden ornament, usually of stone or metal, designed in the the form of a vase used to receive the ashes of the dead. back
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 BARN * A building for the storage and processing of grain crops and for housing straw, farm equipment and occasionally livestock and their fodder. Use more specific type where known. back
monument FARM * A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc. Use more specific type where known. back

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