Information for record number MWA7020:
Mesolithic Flint Scatter

Summary The site of a flint scatter dating mainly to the Mesolithic period. It is located north west of Ilmington.
What Is It?  
Type: Flint Scatter
Period: Mesolithic (10000 BC - 4001 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Admington
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 20 44
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 An abundant scatter of flint found over an area of 600m by 600m, centred around Bog Mill Stalls. The bulk of the material is Mesolithic dating to around 8000 BC.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Admington Survey
Author/originator: Dyer C
Date: 1993
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Glossary

 
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Description  
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 MILL * A factory used for processing raw materials. Use more specific mill type where known. See also TEXTILE MILL, for more narrow terms. 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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