The Site is located to the immediate north of the market town of Bingham, situated 15 km east of the City of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. The Site is approximately 91 ha, bounded to the west and north-west by the A46 (following the route of the Fosse Way) and Chapel Lane and the Car Dyke on the north-east, following the boundary of the Moorbridge Road Industrial Estate in the southeast, and the Nottingham–Skegness railway line to the south. The centre of the Site is dissected by Chapel Lane, running north to south and joining Bingham to the A46 to the north. Five transects comprising 34 boreholes were undertaken across the eastern section of the Site using a percussive window sampling rig (Terrier type) to extract sleeved cores one metre in length and 100 mm in diameter. The deposit records from the geotechnical logs were entered into industry standard software (Rockworks™ v17.0). Each identified lithological unit (gravel, sand, silt etc.) was given a unique colour and pattern allowing cross correlation of the different sediment and soil types across the study area. No archaeological remains were recorded within the lake deposits themselves. However, the evaluation trenching did identify likely medieval to post-medieval drainage ditches cut into the peat and lacustrine deposits of the former lake. The persistence of open water or other forms of wetland means that the part of the site which had previously been part of the ‘Bingham Basin’, were unlikely to have been suitable for settlement or agricultural practice prior to the areas’ reclamation some time shortly before or during the 17th century.