Evidence for prehistoric activity is limited mainly to a thin scatter of Mesolithic to BA lithic artefacts. The most remarkable find of this period is a Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age Beaker, retrieved from a pit cut by a RB enclosure ditch. This pot had been placed in an upright position near the bottom of a small pit and as it had survived intact seems likely to derive from a burial. No associated finds or bones were recovered, but any inhumed remains are unlikely to have survived the acidic soil conditions. The pit fill was virtually indistinguishable from the natural sands into which it had been dug, and the probability must remain of other features of this period which have eluded discovery. (1)
See M4698 for late IA / RB village, M18353 for early IA settlement

<1> TPAT, May 2000, An Iron Age and Romano British Settlement at Moor Pool Close, Rampton, Nottinghamshire. Summary of Watching Brief and Excavations from June 1999 to January 2000, p 12 (Unpublished document). SNT2273.