Identification of a Mesolithic - Late Neolithic site is based on the recovery of the 18 worked flint artifacts recovered during the 2005 excavations in this area. In addition, there is evidence for an Upper Palaeolithic site in this area based on the quantity of Upper Palaeolithic lithics recovered from other archaeological investigations, though this 2005 intervention did not encounter any physical evidence for a settlement. It is possible that there was a long lived pre-historic site in this area which spanned from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Late Neolithic, and this intervention recovered the phase related to the Mesolithic to the Neolithic.

There is no evidence that the lithics were redeposited through natural periglacial processes but that the deposits that originally contained them have probably been destroyed by natural or anthropogenic processes, such as recent deep ploughing. As the site is relatively flat, it is thought unlikely that the finds have been moved any great distance horizontally and that their distribution within the topsoil. (1)

Late Neolithic and Bronze Age flintwork has been recovered during earlier fieldwalking and test pitting exercises (2)

<1> V. Birbeck, A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvements Archaeological Works at Farndon Fields (A46 FAR05): Fieldwork Report (Unpublished document). SNT5183.

<2> Wessex Archæology, Oct 1995, Farndon Fields, Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire Archaeological Evaluation. Fieldwalking, auger survey and test pitting (Unpublished document). SNT2269.