Miscellaneous Posts by broen

Overall lithic densities from Misterton, for the Early Neolithic and later periods, are comparable with those from surveys of chalkland areas in the south including East Berks, Maddle Farm and the Vale of White Horse.
(Ford 1987; Gaffney and Tingle 1989; Tingle 1991)

Ploughzone areas have produced lithic scatters, occasionally with Early Neolithic material although separating Late Mesolithic from Early Neolithic has always been a problem. In Leicestershire 17 locations might be interpreted as core areas - Three areas where systematic survey has been undertaken, at Medbourne, Misterton and Oakham, surface scatters show possible early Neolithic ëcore areasí on Liassic clay and boulder clay valley sides.
An Archaeological Resource Assessment of the Neolithic and Bronze Age Leicestershire and Rutland.

Although most evidence comes from the visible plough zone areas in the form of lithic scatters there is increasing evidence of Early Neolithic activity from low lying stream and river-side areas. At Croft at the confluence of the Soar and Thurlaston Brook possible palisade gullies for post-ring round-houses were located tentatively dated on lithic evidence to the Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic (Hughes and Rosseff 1995)

In the parish of Husbands Bosworth, 175 metres
west of Wheler Lodge Farm (HARBOROUGH, O.S.140 SP640823),
the buried remains of a large causewayed enclosure have
been revealed by recent geophysical survey and
excavations. Two concentric interupted ditches survive
well as a buried feature, and are likely to preserve
artefacts such as pottery fragments and flint tools. Over
50 such enclosures have been recorded nationally,
constructed in the Neolithic period, between about 3000
and 2400BC and continued in use later. They were used for
various functions including settlement, defence and
ceremonial and funerary purposes. Amongst the earliest
field monuments to survive in the modern landscape, they
are considered to be of national importance.