Information for record number MWA6039:
Findspot - Mesolithic flints

Summary Findspot - several flint artefacts dating to the Mesolithic period were found 350m north west of Quarry Farm.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Mancetter
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 31 96
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Worked flints collected, now in Blakesley Hall. Blakesley Hall Museum holds a representative collection of flints but these are not individually identified.
2 Mesolithic finds include 2 unretouched blades/flakes.
3 Illustration of flint.
4 Illustrations of flint.
5 Not possible to date accurately the flint drawn, refs
3 and
4. They could possibly all be Mesolithic.
6 Dating given as Mesolithic.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Meso Sites
Author/originator: Wymer J J
Date: 1977
Page Number: 328
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Mesolithic flint from Mancetter
Author/originator: Wykes G F
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Flint from Mancetter
Author/originator: Pickin J
Date: 1984
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 29NE1
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1967
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Volume/Sheet: 29NE1
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Unpublished document
Author/originator: Palmer S C
Date: 1997
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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 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
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 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 QUARRY * An excavation from which stone for building and other functions, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc. 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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