Information for record number MWA9473:
Find of a Possible Bronze Age Bracelet and Flint Scatter

Summary A Bracelet which possibly dates to the Bronze Age was found by children playing in 1966. The site lies in a field 220m north-east of Wolston School.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter, Findspot
Period: Middle Bronze Age (1600 BC - 1201 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Wolston
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 40 75
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Anecdotal evidence of a Bronze Age Bracelet. The finder was playing as a child in fields near Wolston when a beaten gold object was discovered. The bracelet was broken up (and subsequently lost) by the children who were unaware of what it might be. The informer believes that the bracelet they found is very similar to examples he has since seen which date to the Bronze Age. The informer also describes the field as containing a flint scatter.
2 Middle Bronze Age date given.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Bronze Age Artefact found near Wolston
Author/originator: Mr K Wright
Date: 2003
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Aggregates Assessment
Author/originator: Stuart Palmer
Date: 2006
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Glossary

 
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period Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument SCHOOL * An establishment in which people, usually children, are taught. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument FIELD * An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock. back
monument FLINT SCATTER * A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of flint artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context. back

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