The Site is located to the immediate north of Bingham, which lies approximately 15 km to the east of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. The Site is bounded by the A46 (following the route of the Fosse Way) on its west and northwest, Chapel Lane and Car Dyke on the northeast, following the boundary of Moorbridge Road Industrial Estate in the southeast with the railway line to the south. Its present use is that of agricultural land, mostly arable with some pasture. A total of 60 of the proposed 64 trial trenches were excavated, of which 52 trenches contained archaeological features and/or lacustrine deposits from the former Bingham Basin. The locations of the archaeological features can be broadly split between those west of Chapel Lane and adjacent to the Fosse Way (Romano-British) and those to the centre, south and east of the site (post-medieval and lacustrine). All archaeological features predating the medieval and post-medieval period were located within the northern and western limits of the Site, outside of the area occupied by the wetland environment of the Bingham Basin. Three pieces of worked flint found during fieldwork are suggestive of some prehistoric land use for the site. No features or deposits were recorded which would demonstrate long term or seasonal settlement, and the nature of prehistoric usage within the site is unresolved. Romano-British ditches and occasional pits were identified adjacent to the Fosse Way. These features correspond well to anomalies identified during the Geophysical survey of the area and seem likely to be associated with field systems within this period. Examination of the artefacts recovered from this area has identified Romano-British coursewares, a small assemblage of finewares, ceramic building material and an iron nail. Due to this paucity of feature types (postholes/stakeholes) and Romano-British finds, which are classically associated with settlement (together with an absence of industrial waste, rubbish pits or ritual evidence), it would appear that nature of the Romano-British usage of the Site was non-domestic and instead probably reflects agricultural plots or enclosures for housing livestock. However, given the limited nature of the trenching and complexity of the geophysical responses adjacent to the Fosse Way it is plausible that a continuation of the Romano-British activity previously recorded to the northwest and west, within another site of the A46 improvement works may exist. The discovery of two sherds of possible Anglo-Saxon pottery from within a trench in the north of the site potentially fits with the post-Roman change in the local settlement pattern, with a move away from Margidunum to Bingham. The two sherds were recovered from the last of a series of recut ditches which appeared to respect the positioning of a previous Romano-British field system. In this respect the recovery of the possible Anglo-Saxon pottery from such a feature could suggest that some level of continuity existed in the respective field systems of the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon periods. The likely medieval to post-medieval features identified further to the east are predominantly cut into the peat and lacustrine deposits and are associated with drainage of the field systems in this area. 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. The remaining trenches contain features that are not easily understood in relation to the post-medieval field system.