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Palaeolithic Implements found near Coventry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

Frederick William Shotton
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The recorded occurrences of Lower Palæolithic implements in the English Midlands are extremely few, and the only specimen hitherto recorded from Warwickshire is a quartzite hand-axe found by the late Mr. Joseph Landon at Saltley, near Birmingham. The object of the present paper is to describe and discuss several artifacts which have been found recently in inter-gjacial gravels at Baginton, a village 2½ miles south of Coventry, and one from fluvioglacial gravels at Kenilworth, five miles south of the same city. In searching the deposits of the districts I have received invaluable assistance from certain members of the Coventry Natural History and Scientific Society—from Mr. J. H. Edwards in particular, and also from Messrs. W. Berry, H. Plumb, P. E. Wilks and J. Wright—and to them I would express my appreciation of their help in a search which, from its very nature, could but seldom be rewarded with success.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , 1930 , pp. 174 - 181
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1930

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page 181 note 4 A further area—that of E. Yorkshire—invites comparison with Warwickshire, Mr. Burchell has courteously allowed me to see the manuscript of his paper printed in this issue of the Proceedings, and as a result the following correlation can be suggested:— Older Boulder-clay of Warwickshire=Lower Purple Boulder-clay; Upper Boulder-clay of Warwickshire=Upper Purple-clay of the Yorkshire coast and the ‘Hessle’ Clay of inland sections. The later ‘Hessle’ Clay of the coast, and the clays of Flamborough Head, Burstwick and Kelsey Hill, appear to have no truly-glacial equivalent in Warwickshire.