Information for record number MWA6038:
Mesolithic flint scatter, Burrow Hill, Corley

Summary Findspot - flint artefacts from the Mesolithic period were found 250m south west of Lower Rock Farm.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter, Findspot
Period: Early Mesolithic (10000 BC - 7001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Corley
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 30 84
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Flint implements, including barbed and tanged arrowheads, have been found in these fields.
2 Hundreds of flint implements, flakes and cores have been found. The area is probably an occupation or working site.
3 Most of the area is pasture and no dateable finds were made. The flints have been deposited in Coventry Museum, and except for the barbed and tanged arrowheads, have not been ascribed to any particular period.
4 Illustrations of flint in FI file.
5 Flints also collected include several pieces of possible Mesolithic date including cores, flakes, blades, and scrapers. These flints are now in Warwick Museum.
6 cf West Midlands SMR No 3179.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Bibliographic reference
Author/originator: West Midlands SMR
Date: 1998
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 3180
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Mesolithic flint scatter, Corley.
Author/originator: BC
Date:
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 16SE 1:10560 1890
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1890
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 16SE
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 39SE2
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1951
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 39SE2
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Serial
Title: PCNHSS vol 4
Author/originator: Shotton F W
Date: 1933
Page Number: 65
Volume/Sheet: 4
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1984
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 374
   
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
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
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 SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument PASTURE * A field covered with herbage for the grazing of livestock. back
monument FIELD * An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock. 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 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
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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