Information for record number MWA380:
Findspot - Neolithic Axe, Mancetter.

Summary Findspot - a polished stone axe from the Neolithic period was found on Mancetter Road, Mancetter.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Early Neolithic - Middle Neolithic (4000 BC - 3001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Mancetter
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 32 96
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Stone axe found 1934 at above grid reference. Langdale Group VI. This report from Birmingham Museum records and came via three or four hands. Finder and present location of axe could not be traced.
2 Axe.
3 It is claimed this find was made during bypass construction c1962, not as given above. Find was polished Stone axe donated to Nuneaton Museum, its last known location.
4 Letter relating to
3.
 
Sources
Source No: 4
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: SMR records
Author/originator: Scott. K
Date: 1996
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 29NE1
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1967
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 29NE1
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Unpublished document
Author/originator: Scott, K
Date: 1996
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: TBAS vol 86
Author/originator: Thomas N
Date: 1974
Page Number: 21
Volume/Sheet: 86
   
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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 Neolithic About 4000 BC to 2351 BC

The word ‘Neolithic’ means ‘New Stone Age’. Archaeologists split up the Neolithic period into three phases; early, middle and late. The Neolithic period comes after the Mesolithic period and before the Bronze Age.

People in the Neolithic period hunted and gathered food as their ancestors had but they were also began to farm. They kept animals and grew crops. This meant that they were able to settle more permanently in one location instead of constantly moving from place to place to look for food.
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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 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

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