Information for record number MWA5091:
Palaeolithic handaxes found near Copston.

Summary Findspot - four Palaeolithic handaxes were found 500m north of Copston Spinney.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Upper Palaeolithic (500000 BC - 10001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Wolvey
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 45 89
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Four hand axes, flakes and tools found in a ploughed field.
3 Found on surface 4 handaxes (two of quartzite)
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5 4 flint axes, a quartzite pebble, flakes and rolled chopping tools noted by B Waite. SP4502 8928
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Palaeolithic Rivers Survey
Author/originator: Wessex Archaeology
Date: 1997 approx
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Plan
Title: Plan
Author/originator: Waite B
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Unpublished document
Author/originator: Waite B
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Notes and plans from Ron (Barry) Waite which appear to be with John Pickin (not seen)
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1987
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Source No: 5
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1987
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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
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
monument FIELD * An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock. back

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