67. A number of Mesolithic sites also lie within the county, although many of these have been isolated findspots with few excavations of sites with material in situ (Austin 1997, 9). Mesolithic material has been identified at several locations within the Study Area (WA254, 353, 370, 396, 458 and 537), though no sites have been clearly identified.
1.5.4.2 Neolithic and Bronze Age 68. A number of findspots and scatters of flintwork have been identified in the Study Area (WA233, 248, 256, 283, 324, 353, 369, 418, 492). Neolithic pottery was discovered during the late 19th century Rookery Mound excavations (WA396) and Neolithic features located during both the Blood Hill, Bramford excavations (WA560) as well during work in connection with the Martlesham by-pass (WA350 and 372 (not clear whether second HER record is a duplicated entry).
69. A number of cropmarks in the region have also been identified as potential remains of Neolithic funerary monuments (WA407, 409, 573, 135).
70. Within the Study Area a large number of Bronze Age artefacts have been recovered, particularly from metal detecting (WA106, 107, 110, 138, 270, 345, 354, 369, 431, 439, 441, 446, 458, 483, 487, 493, 505, 525, 534). These indicate a general spread of activity throughout the Study Area and some of the flint scatters may be evidence of nearby archaeological sites or features.
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Relatively little Bronze Age occupation has been recognised within the Study Area though such activity has been located at Kirton Lodge Farm (WA180), Rookery mound (WA396) and Blood Hill (WA560), the last site including two Early Bronze Age inhumation graves.
72. During this period agricultural production and forest clearance is known to have increased (Brown and Murphy 1997, 16). A number of cropmarks within the Study Area potentially relate to field systems constructed during the Bronze Age and later Prehistoric period (WA135, 202, 206 208 210, 212, 213, 217, 219, 226, 247, 250, 262, 272, 289, 292, 301, 306, 312, 334, 412). Other circular features and ring ditch features identified from aerial images may indicate Bronze Age barrows which may have functioned both as funerary monuments but also as territorial and landscape markers (Woodward 2000, 49-72)(WA197, 217, 220, 221, 223, 242, 257, 317, 323, 411, 413, 417). Though interpretation from such evidence is difficult and such features can also be understood as hut circles, more indicative of Iron Age settlement activity (WA135, 160, 214, 221, 264, 273, 288).
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