Rufford Forest Farm is situated in the Civil Parish of Rainworth, approximately 2.3km to north-north-east of Rainworth village and 3.9km north-north-west of Farnsfield. The immediate area is characterised by intensive agriculture within large, geometric fields interspersed with occasional farmsteads (JBA, 2013). A cable trench was excavated from the transformer position to the site of the transformer associated with the previous wind turbine, where the cable would be connected to the existing cable connecting that transformer to the farm buildings. The cable trench was excavated to varying depths, with a 2m wide working width stripped down to the surface of the natural, followed by the excavation of a central trench 1m wide and 1.9m deep. The final phase of monitored groundworks was the excavation of the turbine foundation pit around and within a ring of previously sunk piles, to a depth of 1.6m. Two features were recorded during the monitoring programme: a small pit and another feature that was seen only in section, probably a second pit. Neither feature could be dated, and may have had a single short-term use, such as sand extraction. Neither of the two features recorded produced any evidence for settlement, or any other recognisable activity.