Mesolithic blades found near Priory Street (TM 000250).

Three blades and flakes unretouched.

Two Mesolithic blades recovered.

Finds of worked flint from the 1970's excavations include a possible Mesolithic graver four punch struck blades and a small end scraper, also possibly Mesolithic.

Field walking in 2007 recovered 200 flints were recovered. Most of the flint was waste from flint working, i.e. trimming pieces, flakes or debitage. A number of cores or fragments of cores were found. A small proportion were completed tools (scrapers, blades, knives). The diagnostic pieces indicate a multi-period site, mainly Mesolithic with some later Neolithic activity.

Prehistoric pottery and flint and Anglo-Saxon pottery and comb, recorded during excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5.

Palaeolithic, Mesolithic & Neolithic flints

A Fieldwalking survey of farmland to the East of Birch airfield revealed finds of predominantly Roman date, including masonry.

Early Iron Age pits and a ditch were defined by trial-trenched evaluation on land west of Hall Road, Copford, in 2016.

Worked flint recovered during the excavation of the Middle Bronze Age cemetery was examined by J Wymer who suggested the bulk to be probably Neolithic; they include scrapers, flakes, blades and pot boilers.