The first site is located approximately 1km to the south-west of Lowdham and adjacent to the Lambley Road, whilst the second site is located a further 1km to the south-west adjacent to Park Lane. The Site lies within the floodplain of the Cocker Beck, a tributary of the River Trent located within the middle Trent Valley, defined as that part of the Trent Valley from Newark on Trent (14 km north-east) to Alrewas at the confluence with the River Tame (58km south-west). Four trial pits were subject to a watching brief by an appropriately experienced archaeologist. To create the deposit models for the Site, 35 individual geotechnical logs were examined by a geoarchaeologist and the lithological data entered into a digital database. Historical deposit records held on the BGS’s online borehole library were also examined. The geoarchaeological monitoring of the four test pits together with the deposit modelling of the G.I. records has established the nature of the geoarchaeological resource present across the two Sites outlined below: - Weathered bedrock: may contain a Head component with potential to contain reworked artefacts. - Coarse grained alluvium: Late Pleistocene sands and gravels comparable to the Holme Pierrepont terrace, deposited in a high energy environment. There is a medium geoarchaeological potential within these deposits for reworked Palaeolithic artefacts and faunal remains. - Alluvium: fine grained alluvial deposits of clay, silt and sand up to 1.8m in thickness. Holocene in date and deposited in a low energy environment. These deposits have a low geoarchaeological potential but may still have potential to contain preserved archaeological remains. - Colluvium: Probably the result of subaerial erosion of the topsoil by agricultural practices then mobilised and transported downslope by rainfall. These deposits have a low geoarchaeological potential but may contain artefacts transported downslope.