Information for record number MWA9973:
Findspot - Prehistoric Flints

Summary
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Mesolithic - Iron Age (7000 BC - 700 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Rugby
District: Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 43 89
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Flints from near the M69 junction with the A5
Author/originator: Southgate, S.
Date: 1998
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Glossary

 
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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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period Iron Age About 800 BC to 43 AD

The Iron Age comes after the Bronze Age and before the Roman period. It is a time when people developed the skills and knowledge to work and use iron, hence the name ‘Iron Age’ which is given to this period. Iron is a much tougher and more durable metal than bronze but it also requires more skill to make objects from it. People continued to use bronze during this period.
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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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