The survey area is located to the east of Newington and to the south-west of Misson. It comprises two agricultural fields, bounded by Newington Road to the north, Slaynes Road to the south, with small lake to the east and elsewhere by farmland. The total size of the survey area is 15.4 hectares and is situated at c. 3-4m AOD. A total of 30 trenches were excavated, 28 of which measured 50m x 2m, with one measuring 25m x 2m and a further trench measuring 31m x 2m. Ten trenches were placed to investigate geophysical anomalies with the remainder investigating apparently blank areas of the site. Excavation of the trenches was carried out using a mechanical excavator equipped with a toothless ditching bucket until either the top of the first archaeological horizon or undisturbed natural was reached. The resulting surface was inspected for archaeological remains. Alongside the geophysical survey, the results of the trial trenching indicate that an extension to the quarry is unlikely to have a significant impact on any surviving archaeological remains. The features investigated to date have been interpreted as the remains of early modern field boundaries, and certainly the features representing anomalies reflect field boundaries shown on Ordnance Survey mapping from 1948. One deposit from one trench contained industrial debris relating to smelting activity of either Iron Age or Saxon date. Whether this was contained within a cut, such as a hearth or furnace however, could not be determined within the trench limits. It is possible that the site of a furnace lies beyond the trench and only the debris dispersed by later activity has been recovered here.