A total of 102 pieces of worked flint or (unworked) burnt flint was recovered during the fieldwalking survey. The majority of recovered lithics comprise un-retouched removals (flakes, blades, chips) and cores/core fragments. Pieces with secondary working are restricted to a backed bladelet (microlith), a re-touched flake, and scrapers. The majority of the collected flint, including the unutilised flakes and undiagnostic tool forms such as the scrapers, cannot be dated based on typological models. The few that could be dated span from Mesolithic to (early to middle) Bronze Age.

One sherd of Late Iron Age/ Early Roman pottery was recovered from the southwest area of the site.

A total of eight sherds of Romano-British pottery were recovered during the survey. The majority of these sherds were undiagnostic and oxidised, with only three sherds of grooved-ware type.

Three sherds of medieval pottery originating from domestic vessels were recovered.

The majority of material collected from the survey comprised post-medieval and modern pottery. A number of clay pipe fragments, buttons, horse shoes and other ferrous objects (all post-medieval) and modern glass and brick were recovered; all providing a ‘background noise’ prevalent across the site.





A small number of the late Palaeolithic/Mesolithic blades; Mesolithic cores; and Mesolithic bladelets recovered were not insufficient to suggest a concentration or in situ scatter. The majority of the worked flints recovered were undiagnostic and could only be categorised as ‘prehistoric’. Most exhibited moderate to extensive edge-damage or breakage consistent with long-term exposure to agriculture. It is noteworthy that no flints were recovered from the area of suspected alluvial deposits associated with the former palaeochannel to the northeast of the site.

A low level of artefactual material dating to the Iron Age, Roman and medieval periods was recovered across the survey area. This material exhibited no significant distribution, representing a ‘background noise’ of artefacts resulting from prolonged agricultural use of the landscape.

Rebecca Riley, 2009, A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement, Nottinghamshire: Surface Artefact Collection (Fieldwalking) Survey (Unpublished document). SNT5388.