Monument record WSW 002 - West Stow Country Park (Mesolithic)

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Summary

Multi-period site,including scatter of mesolithic implements across the whole excavation area

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 7969 7133 (238m by 99m)
Map sheet	TL77SE
Civil Parish	WEST STOW, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

1957-1972: Excavations

Scatter of Mesolithic blades, cores, microliths. Patches or "working areas" of waste blades, etc. Found over whole of the excavated area. A quartzite macehead with hour-glass perforation was found in Saxon sunken floored building 37 (S1). A detailed account of the Mesolithic finds can be found in part 2 of the West Stow report (S2).

Microliths include may rod forms but also scalene triangles and obliquely blunted forms, (S2)

See also (S3-S5).

Sources/Archives (5)

<S1> SSF50202 Bibliographic reference: West, S.. 1985. West Stow : The Anglo-Saxon Village (EAA 24). 24.
<S2> SSF59377 Article in serial: West, S.. 1990. West Stow, Suffolk: The Prehistoric and Romano-British Occupations.
<S3> SSF59353 Digital archive: Jacobi, R.. 2014. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Lithic Artefact (PaMELA) database. 11588.
<S4> SSF59354 Bibliographic reference: Billington, L, P.. 2016. Lithic Scatters and Landscape Occupation in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: A Case Study from Eastern England.. M 1203, M 1213.
<S5> SSF23378 Bibliographic reference: Wymer, J.J. & Bonsall, C.J.. 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, CBA Research Report 20. 266.

Finds (10)

FSF14250: BLADE (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF14251: CORE (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF14252: PEBBLE MACE (Mesolithic - 9000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51396: FLAKE (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51397: SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51398: MICROBURIN (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51399: CORE REJUVINATION FLAKE = CORE TABLET (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51400: ROD MICROLITH (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51401: MICROLITH WITH INVERSE BASAL RETOUCH (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)
FSF51402: OBLIQUELY BLUNTED/PARTIALLY BACKED MICROLITH (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4000 BC?)