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Findspot - Mesolithic flints

Summary Findspot - flint artefacts dating to the Mesolithic period were found to the south of Tiddington Road, Stratford upon Avon.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Stratford upon Avon
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 21 55
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 There are some simple flakes from Stratford-on-Avon in Warwick Museum.
2 Microliths from a gravel pit between Tiddington and Loxley Road.
3 Reference
2 gives SP2155, but the quarry appears to have been at the grid reference given above.
5 Three cores, five microliths and unretouched blades/flakes are recorded from the site.
6 The flints were found and donated by a gentleman and include six possible microliths, 38 flint flakes and three possible microlithic cores.
6 Record card from 1970.
 
Sources
Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites
Author/originator: Wymer J J
Date: 1977
Page Number: 327
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Source No: 6
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: WM
Author/originator: WM
Date:
Page Number: A198
Volume/Sheet: Catalogue
   
Source No: 6
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: Mesolithic flint at Tiddington
Author/originator:
Date: 1970
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 58
Author/originator: Shotton F W
Date: 1934
Page Number: 43-4
Volume/Sheet: 58
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Stratford-on-Avon
Author/originator: Slater T R and Wilson C
Date: 1977
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Microliths from Tiddington
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1988
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Palmer N J
Date: 1988
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 891
   
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Glossary

 
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. 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
source WM Warwickshire Museum Aerial Photograph Collection. A collection of oblique and vertical aerial photographs and taken by various organisations and individuals, including the Royal Airforce, The Potato Board, Warwickshire Museum. The collection is held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. 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 ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. 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 GRAVEL PIT * A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel. back
monument QUARRY * An excavation from which stone for building and other functions, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc. back

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