The site is located broadly 18km west of Newark and 8.5km south east of Mansfield, 2km west of Farnsfield and 750m to the east of Lurcher Farm. Groundworks comprised the excavation of a square trench measuring 9m x 9m and an adjoining north-south aligned 80m long x 0.5m wide cable trench. All excavation was undertaken by machine excavator, monitored under archaeological supervision. The watching brief recorded a sequence of stratigraphy comprising topsoil overlying natural sand deposits across the site. No archaeological deposits, features or material evidence was recorded within the trenches. The paucity of archaeological evidence from the trenches suggests very low human activity on the site and its environs and may also be indicative of the long-term exploitation of this land for agriculture. However, given the small size of the areas excavated the results may not represent an accurate distribution of the extent of human activity within the close vicinity of the site.