The site lies to the immediate south of Clifton, directly east of Barton in Fabis and to the north of Gotham. The entire site encompasses c.253.5ha of predominately open arable land. Trenches (50m x 2m) were positioned according to an approved trenching plan, allowing for minor adjustment due to the presence of unforeseen obstacles such as services. Trenches were opened under archaeological supervision to the first archaeologically significant horizon, the maximum safe working depth, or the natural geology, whichever was encountered first. A toothless bucket was used for machine excavation. The linear features exposed in two trenches correlate with geophysical anomalies and clearly relate to agricultural usage of the land. This is clearly evident in the first trench where a parallel, northwest to southeast ditch and furrow follow the alignment of a recent field boundary. Likewise, a linear feature investigated in the second trench correlates with an interpreted land drain, which after excavation revealed itself to be a modern field boundary ditch. Three trenches that exposed further minimal levels of archaeology lay outside the limits of the geophysical investigation. One of the three trenches exposed the remnants of a shallow northeast to southwest gully and a parallel field or hedge boundary containing brick fragments of post-medieval origin. If projected northeast, this boundary appears to be a continuation of one revealed in another one of the trenches which contained a tree bole and frequent rooting. The small northwest to southeast aligned gully in the third trench may be associated with those features in the second trench, perhaps forming another perpendicular boundary at its southeast extrapolation.