An Archaeological Resource Assessment of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Northamptonshire

1.1 The intention behind the publication in 1989 of "Midlands Prehistory: Some recent and current researches into the prehistory of central England", was to show that the Midlands was "far from the prehistoric wilderness that was once envisaged" (Gibson 1989, 3). This collection of papers provided a demonstration of how the combined efforts of aerial photography, fieldwalking and rescue archaeology had brought life to a "desert" previously populated in the Neolithic and Bronze Age only by isolated oases of activity, such as the occasional round barrow.