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Findspot - Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary Findspot - a Palaeolithic handaxe was found 700m south west of Ilmington.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Ilmington
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 21 43
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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1 A lower palaeolithic bifacial handaxe, found in Ilmington some years ago, was brought to the County Museum. One edge has been worked by opposed serial flaking but the other edge and part of the butt are unmodified and retain their original cortex. This asymmetrical work gives the tool the appearance of a segmental chopper. Although it was found at the above grid reference there is some doubt about its original provenance and it has been suggested that it might have come from the collection of a local antiquary which was broken up in the mid 19th century.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: WMA vol 30
Author/originator: Pickin J
Date: 1987
Page Number: 46
Volume/Sheet: 30
   
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Glossary

 
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source WMA West Midlands Archaeology. This publication contains a short description for each of the sites where archaeological work has taken place in the previous year. It covers Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire. Some of these descriptions include photographs, plans and drawings of the sites and/or the finds that have been discovered. The publication is produced by the Council For British Archaeology (CBA) West Midlands and is published annually. Copies are held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. 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

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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