The Fairham Pastures development site is located directly to the south of the town of Clifton, within the north side of Barton in Fabis parish, in the Borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire. The current works area, Phase 8, is located in the north-eastern corner of the application area. The whole of the works area measures some 11.5 hectares: the area to be evaluated consisted of a large, roughly triangular plot on the north-west side of the course of a newly laid-out access road, with four adjoining smaller plots on the south-east side, in an area that is to consist partly of residential development and partly of structural landscaping. The evaluation was to consist of twenty-one trenches, each measuring 50m x 2m, but the last trench had to be abandoned due to the presence of a contractors’ spoil heap in its proposed location. The archaeological evaluation encountered a very low level of archaeological remains, exposing only two features and retrieving a very small finds assemblage; however, the results are potentially significant. Although the pit base exposed in one trench was heavily truncated, the last remnant of its fill produced five struck flints, as well as smaller chips of heat-affected flint, suggesting that these finds were among the very few Neolithic finds at Fairham Pastures to have been found in a stratified context, and that the pit was genuinely of early Neolithic date. However, the very low density of archaeological features and the paucity of artefacts suggest that the Phase 8 site was peripheral to settled activity of any period: the coincidence of complex archaeological remains with areas of higher ground in previous works phases suggests that the lower ground on which the Phase 8 site lies would have been undesirable for permanent habitation or long-term activity. The very low density of archaeological features and the paucity of artefacts in the Phase 8 works area suggest that the site was peripheral to settled activity of any period.