Information for record number MWA6322:
Findspot - Palaeolithic quartzite chopper core

Summary Findspot - a Palaeolithic chopper core was found 100m north of North Wood.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Nuneaton and Bedworth
District: Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 33 90
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 A quartzite chopper core found at Nuneaton in 1987. This is the first such find from the Arbury Hall area. As a surface find the date is speculative but the rolled nature of the flake ridges suggests an early date. It has been assumed that other rolled pieces in the Waite collection are lower Palaeolithic.
2 Drawing.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Bibliographic reference
Author/originator: JLP
Date: 1988
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Palaeolithic chopper core, Nuneaton
Author/originator: JLP
Date: 1988
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Glossary

 
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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 WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. back

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