The assessment area lies to the north of Ashland Road. It is located between and north of the urban areas of Huthwaite and Sutton-in-Ashfield. An approximate 280m length of the site is bounded directly on the south by Ashland Road. The remainder of the site is fronted by residential properties with fields and Brierley Forest Park bounding the northern length of the site. The assessment area consists of a wedge-shaped area of land comprising two pasture fields, partially separated by a narrow hedgeline running approximately north to south. The total area of the land is around 10.137 hectares, with the larger western field around three times the size of the smaller eastern one. The project involved the excavation of 56 trenches across the development area using a single tracked 13 tonne 360 excavator with 1.80 m ditching buckets. Top and sub-soils were removed under constant supervision throughout the groundworks. These were separated and deposited either side of the excavated trench. The groundworks commenced from the North-east corner of the smaller field due to the Japanese Knotweed in the larger one which had yet to be fenced off. All of the 56 excavated trenches were negative for archaeological features. The geophysical survey did not identify any magnetic responses that could be interpreted as being of definite archaeological interest. Although some uncertain linear and curvilinear responses were detected across the area, trenching did not identify archaeological features associated with these anomalies. Although ridge and furrow was indicated by the survey, there was a physical absence of inter-cutting furrows across both areas during the groundworks. However field drains were identified of which many ran north to south. Field drains are often found parallel with, and cutting into furrow deposits. Although the survey suggests ridge and furrow existed across the assessment area the remains were probably shallow to the extent they may have been removed during the ground-works. The former north-south field boundaries across both fields were also absent. The field boundaries were present on the 1938 25inch ordnance survey map. Although uncertain when the hedgerows were removed, intensive post war ploughing may have contributed to the heavy truncation of the remains, although still enough of a trace to register on the geophysical survey. Only house bricks and ceramic/slate roof tiles were found together with post-medieval pottery within the top-soil. The material could have been deposited from the demolished Co-operative Hosiery factory upslope from the site at North Street to the south-west of the site. Re-used house bricks were constructed as drainage culverts identified in a few trenches.