Information for record number MWA703:
Findspot - Palaeolithic flint implement, Barford.

Summary Findspot - a Palaeolithic flake implement was found at a gravel pit near Barford.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Early Lower Palaeolithic - Late Middle Palaeolithic (1000000 BC - 40001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Barford
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 28 61
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 A flaked flint implement of Lower Palaeolithic date found in the gravel pit near Barford village on the east bank of the Avon, about 400m from the present stream. The upper molar of a mammoth and well striated stones were also found here.
2 The handaxe came from the 4th terrace and is small and made of a pebble of which much of the cortex remains. The handaxe is somewhat waterworn and is of Acheulian date.
3 The finder was not traced and no further information was obtained. The gravel pit was possibly the one at SP2861.
4 The handaxe record is genuine but recorded from 'gravel pit' at approximately SP 275 612.
5 The flake implement as
1 above appears to be the same flake as the New gravel pit find (MWA717).
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Article in serial
Title: Flint implement from the Warwick Avon Valley gravel.
Author/originator: Jack A
Date: 1922
Page Number: 621
Volume/Sheet: 3
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 58 Stone Implements of Warwickshire
Author/originator: Shotton FW
Date: 1934
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 58
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Monograph
Title: A Gazetteer of British Lower & Middle Palaeolithic Sites
Author/originator: Derek A Roe
Date: 1968
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Personal Comment
Author/originator: Keith Elliott
Date: 2016
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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 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
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 VILLAGE * A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. back
monument GRAVEL PIT * A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel. back
monument STREAM * A natural flow or current of water issuing from a source. back
monument TERRACE * A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit. back

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