The densities of flintwork on the gravel island (40 - 62 per hectare) are amongst the highest recorded in this region. The abrupt change in artefact density at the interface between gravel and alluvium may indicate that alluviation has sealed sub-ploughsoil deposits or features containing flintwork, these deposits could be exceptionally well preserved. The distribution of the diagnostic material suggests Neolithic / Bronze Age activity over the [whole island]. (1)
Important evidence for early Bronze Age settlement was obtained from a pit sealed by a later (possibly IA) ditch in Trench 03. The discovery of early BA occupation features is of major regional significance, and provides a possible context for some of the flintwork recorded during fieldwalking and test pitting. (2)
See M18291 for IA settlement, M18293 for Mes activity.

<1> TPAT, 04/1994, Proposed Gravel Quarry at Collingham, Notts.: Fieldwalking Survey Summary Report and Recommendations for Further Work, p 6 (Unpublished document). SNT2020.

<2> TPAT, 08/1994, Cromwell Quarry Extension: Summary Report on Trial Trenching and Test Pitting, p 24 (Unpublished document). SNT2074.