East Midlands Archaeological Research Framework: Resource Assessment of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Nottinghamshire 1 An Archaeological Resource Assessment of The Neolithic and Bronze Age in Nottinghamshire

Note: For copyright reasons the figures are currently omitted from the web version of this paper. It is hoped to include them in future versions. 1. Currently, there are 710 records on the Nottinghamshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) which are relevant to the Neolithic and Bronze Age. 236 records refer to remains or finds which have been categorised as Neolithic while 253 refer to the Bronze Age. A further 221 records include Neolithic and/or Bronze Age under the description of Prehistoric. 2. These records principally refer to cropmarks and finds. The only upstanding remains are a henge monument at Gunthorpe 1 and some of the 6 earthworks included amongst the 24 and 14 sites which are respectively categorised as round mounds and round barrows. Evidence about landscape comes primarily from palaeoenvironmental data within deposits in river channels and alluvium which ranges from pollen to the trunks of forest oaks. These deposits also produce metal and other objects, and human remains, which may variously derive from ritual deposition or the erosion of river bank sites. Structural remains, such as burnt mounds, pits and ditches have been discovered within or beneath alluvium during development led investigations 3. Until the advent of aerial reconnaisance the only research material was finds. Then cam