Five worked flints that were assigned to the Later Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) based on having diagnostic typo-technological features and/or the development of a dense cortication with a white or bluish hue. The finds contribute to a large body of data indicating the preservation of lithic scatters related to stone-tool manufacture and tool-use within the site itself during the LUP. The finds included a fragment from an obliquely truncated point, which is particularly notable due to the relatively limited number of these artefacts recovered during earlier interventions. It was likely part of a Creswell point. The LUP finds accounted for 12.5% of the total worked lithics, which is consistent with the results of earlier fieldwalking.

A bladelet and a core were tentatively assigned to the Mesolithic based on typo-technological features and the lack of cortication. Excavations targeting sub-surface deposits in the southern edge of the site, and further to the south identified LUP Federmesser artefacts lacking a dense cortication. It is therefore plausible that the bladelet and core belong to the LUP Federmesser. However, given the difficulties in dating artefacts from surface collections the objects were conservatively assigned to the Mesolithic.

Twelve lithic artefacts were identified as dating to the later Neolithic/early Bronze Age, including a characteristic transverse arrowhead, invasively retouched scraper and discoidal cores. There was no obvious spatial patterning in the data. The finds contribute to the background of later Prehistoric flintwork recovered from the site itself during previous fieldwalking interventions. There is no evidence for in situ deposits of this age within the site and earlier archaeological interventions have shown that the deposits below the ploughsoil were laid down much earlier, at the end of the Pleistocene.

Twenty-one worked flint objects were identified that lacked clear typo-technological features to date them to a specific era. Based on the lack of cortication it is considered most likely that this objects date from later Prehistory (Mesolithic-Neolithic-Bronze). As noted above, it is plausible that some of this material lacking cortication belongs to the LUP Federmesser. However, given the ex situ nature of the material an earlier age for this flintwork cannot be clearly demonstrated.

Eight burnt unworked flint were recovered during fieldwalking. It is possible that these were burnt as a result of prehistoric activity, although may also have burnt incidentally during more recent activities.

In light of the poor ground conditions and the fact that the land has been previously extensively field walked, finds recovery was still relatively high. This likely reflects continued degradation of the subsurface deposits due to continued farming and incorporation of artefacts into the ploughsoil.

There were no obviously high concentrations of artefacts based on the most recent fieldwalking data. Plotting the data alongside the fieldwalking data from earlier interventions does not affect the overall distribution of artefacts.

Joshua Hogue, Archaeological Fieldwalking Report: Land Off Fosse Road, Farndon, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT5526.