Chartered Institute for Archaeologists 2023

32 along with finds of cattle teeth, chipped flints and a stone rubbing tool, as well as posts, postholes and other features. We have interpreted this as a platform for processing animal skins and potentially curing hides in the pond. This site also had successive occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, stratified above the Mesolithic remains. In both cases these well-preserved archaeological remains also had preserved alongside them a continuous palaeoenvironmental sequence of deposits that can tell us about landscape development and human activity in the immediate surrounding landscape. These are remarkable discoveries that have been found as a result of the application of a specific evaluation technique and not by chance. We have ground tested the landform element approach in real-world settings on a large scale and on several sites. It has proved effective in identifying the best range and use of evaluation techniques, recovering what is archaeologically significant about an area, as well as in directing the best use of spend, at the right times, in the discharge of planning requirements. Recording a well preserved sediment stack within the kettle hole containing the Late Mesolithic timber platform. A detailed and highly informative paleoenvironmental record from the Late Glacial through to the mid-Holocene was retrieved. ©Archaeological Research Services Ltd