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The evaluation excavation at the settlement of Litomyšl-Nedošín 11 was carried out in August 2021 by the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava and the Archaeological Department of the Regional Museum in Litomyšl. Two trenches were placed at the site based on the results of the geomagnetic survey conducted in 2020. A part of longhouse was probably recorded in trench S1 (part of the outer wall of a row of posts oriented SSW-SSE, with an elongated narrow clay pit adjacent to from the west, disturbed at the far edge by a hearth or oven with the pebbled floor). The observed situation can be tentatively dated to the younger stage of the LPC (Phase IIIa–IIIb). A part of the course of a round to oval ditch was recorded in probe S2, signalled by magnetometry. This is a Neolithic roundel, dated to SPC Phase III by the finds. The Krumlovský les type II chert is the leading raw material of the chipped stone industry from southwestern Moravia. The SPC locality Nedošín (with a probable microregion in the vicinity, indicated by earlier collections) lies in an isolated position between groups of roundels in Bohemia, South Moravia, Silesia, perhaps even in Central Moravia and on a traditional communication route still functioning in the Middle Ages ("Trstěnická cesta"). Its function as an intermediary between the Moravian valley area and the Polabí region is highly probable under these circumstances in the SPC phase III and perhaps also at the beginning of the SPC IV phase, i. e. around the border of the first and second quarter of the 5th millennium BC.