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Findspot - Palaeolithic flint

Summary A flint artefact, possibly dating to the Palaeolithic period, was found 800m north west of Little Wolford.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Great Wolford
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 25 35
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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Description

 
Source Number  

1 Possible palaeolithic flint flake found at this location. No further details.
 
Sources

Source No: 1
Source Type: Museum Enquiry Form
Title: WMEF 626
Author/originator: Pickin J L
Date: 1986
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 626
   
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source WMEF Warwickshire Museum Enquiry Form. These are forms that are filled in when a person brings an object to Warwickshire Museum to be identified. Amongst the information recorded on the form are details such as a description of the object, where and when it was found, and in some cases a sketch or photographs of it. Copies of the form can be viewed 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

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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