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Findspot - Neolithic Finds, Brook St, Warwick

Summary Findspot - nine sherds of pottery and fifteen flints dating to the Neolithic period were found during salvage excavation at Brook Street, Warwick.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Neolithic (4000 BC - 2201 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Warwick
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 28 64
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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1 165sq.m behind Nos 25, 31 and 33 Brook Street was excavated in summer 1973 prior to redevelopment. Anticipated Neolithic remains were noticeably scarce (See WA 1985 and WA 1986). Only 9 sherds and 15 worked flints were found as residual material. Two vessels were represented, both being to the Mildenhall style of Earlier Neolithic decorated pottery. Given the intensity of the medieval and post Medieval use of the area, it seems likely that most of the traces of the Neolithic period must have been destroyed.
2 Excavations published in TBAS in 1992.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Excavation at 25-33 Brook Street, Warwick, 1973
Author/originator: Bishop M & Cracknell S
Date: 1973
Page Number: 8
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 97
Author/originator: Cracknell S and Bishop M W
Date: 1992
Page Number: 1-40
Volume/Sheet: 97
   
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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
technique excavation Archaeologists excavate sites so that they can find information and recover archaeological materials before they are destroyed by erosion, construction or changes in land-use.

Depending on how complicated and widespread the archaeological deposits are, excavation can be done by hand or with heavy machinery. Archaeologists may excavate a site in a number of ways; either by open area excavation, by digging a test pit or a trial trench.
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period Neolithic About 4000 BC to 2351 BC

The word ‘Neolithic’ means ‘New Stone Age’. Archaeologists split up the Neolithic period into three phases; early, middle and late. The Neolithic period comes after the Mesolithic period and before the Bronze Age.

People in the Neolithic period hunted and gathered food as their ancestors had but they were also began to farm. They kept animals and grew crops. This meant that they were able to settle more permanently in one location instead of constantly moving from place to place to look for food.
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period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period Post Medieval About 1540 AD to 1750 AD (the 16th century AD to the 18th century AD)

The Post Medieval period comes after the medieval period and before the Imperial period.

This period covers the second half of the reign of the Tudors (1485 – 1603), the reign of the Stuarts (1603 – 1702) and the beginning of the reign of the Hannoverians (1714 – 1836).
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monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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