Evidence for early prehistory is generally quite scarce in Worcestershire. Such sites are often only characterised by scatters of flint (both waste material and finished implements). However, Droitwich and its immediate vicinity feature several sites of very early date. At Bays Meadow in the extreme south-west corner of the parish a concentration of worked flint, including material attributed to the Mesolithic period (about 8000-4000 BC) was discovered in the late 1980s by the Worcestershire County Archaeological Unit. Subsequent archaeological work in this area in the 1990s by the Birmingham University Field Archaeological Unit failed to add any further data. The original finds were quite special, as they included some material which was clearly in situ flint working, a very rare survival in this region.

More evidence for the Mesolithic period has recently emerged at Impney in Dodderhill parish. Here peat deposits have been identified for which initial radiocarbon dating is suggesting that the lower part is of Mesolithic date. If confirmed by work which is currently in progress, then these deposits will be of national importance, as obviously little survives of these very early periods. Such deposits are a natural data-bank for environmental change over thousands of years, and in the case of Impney, the initial environmental results are quite tantalizing. This is because traces of grain cultivation were noted at the Mesolithic level of the deposit sequence, which is, of course, contrary to the textbook understanding of this early part of our human evolution in this country, where the conventional view is that farming started in the Neolithic period (about 4000-2000 BC).

Other remains are less tangibly prehistoric. For instance, a ridge is noticeable as a topographical feature to the north-east of Droitwich and this passes through Dodderhill roughly from the north-east to south-west. It is marked today by several references to a ridgeway (in farm-names for instance), and on the ground is evidently a good example of a route of a kind often regarded as of great antiquity (though now mainly followed by just minor roads and footpath). It runs parallel to, and just north of the Roman road (the A38) through Dodderhill, and is possibly a precursor to this major road. It connects at its southern end with Crutch Lane, which has also been suggested to be of Pre-Roman date.

Worked flints have been regularly found during fieldwalking. Though no definitive conclusions should be drawn from the available data, there is a high enough incidence of discarded cores and waste flakes (evidence for in situ flint working) to suggest that manufacture of flint implements was taking place locally. This in turn suggests that at least temporary occupation will have also occurred locally in the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods.