Desk-based assessment of Hamilton Hill. This report pulls together the results of several different pieces of work in an attempt to understand better the archaeological resource of Hamilton Hill, Sutton in Ashfield. Hamilton Hill has parallels with an increasing number of assembly sites, while there are growing signs that local government in the early medieval period may have undergone significant changes over time; changes for which existing documentary and topographic information can only provide limited and intriguing hints. Of all the possible explanations for the site, a place of early medieval assembly seems overall the most likely.