The Fairham Pastures development site is located directly to the south of the town of Clifton, within the north side of Barton in Fabis parish, in the Borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire. The Phase 3 and 3b works areas are located on the east side of the Nottingham Road, within the area mapped as ‘Clifton Pasture’. They are formed by two irregular areas of arable land: the larger northern portion, directly adjacent to the Nottingham Road and currently part of a larger field, is about 10.4ha in area and is to be developed for housing, while the smaller southern portion, currently forming about 2.5ha of a second field, is to become a public open space. The first part of the programme of intrusive archaeological works in the Phase 3 and 3b works areas, in the form of evaluation trenching, took place in the autumn of 2020. 37 trenches, each measuring 20m x 2m, had been proposed, although five of these could not be excavated due to conflict with contractor operations. Some of the 32 excavated trenches were targeted on the results of the geophysical survey, while others were positioned to sample areas where geophysical responses had been absent; trenches were more closely spaced in areas that seemed more likely to be productive, as previous site works had demonstrated that settlement features were more common on higher ground. Archaeological features were encountered in 14 of the evaluation trenches: all were towards the west side of the larger northern field of the Phase 3 area and within Phase 3b, with none in the smaller southern field. In consultation with the Senior Archaeological Advisor to Nottinghamshire County Council, the project moved on to the targeted excavation stage as soon as the areas of archaeological interest had been identified, without preparing a separate evaluation report. Topsoil and subsoil layers were removed separately under archaeological supervision, using a tracked 360º excavator fitted with a toothless ditching bucket. Machine excavation ceased at the first archaeological horizon, or at the surface of the natural geology where no archaeological remains were present, and was followed by the manual cleaning and excavation of all archaeological features exposed, the recovery of artefactual or ecofactual remains, and detailed recording. The Phase 3/3b site, similarly to the Phase 1 works area, has been shown to be a palimpsest, with occupation and activity of several different phases across the site, but with the main concentrations of remains of different periods varying between the individual excavation areas. However, the date range of the archaeological remains found on the Phase 3/3b site is smaller, with most of the datable features being of Iron Age to mid-Roman date. The evidence for earlier prehistoric occupation on the Phase 3/3b site is ambiguous, as the number of worked flints found as probable redeposits in features also containing Iron Age or Roman pottery implies that one or two struck flints in a pit or ditch fill cannot be taken as reliable dating evidence even if no later material was found in the excavated section. The worked flint assemblage, which includes several knives and at least one scraper, certainly indicates that the site was utilised in the earlier Neolithic period, but there is no definite evidence for permanent occupation. The range of long-distance linear features exposed in both parts of Area 3 – a multiply recut sequence of large ditches, single and double rows of pits and the segmented ditch which ran perpendicular to the other linear features – produced early Neolithic struck flint, but the identifiable elements of the pottery assemblage suggested a middle to late Iron Age date. This corroborates the findings of the archaeological works on the tramway site, which exposed a double pit alignment that can be traced into Area 3, and retrieved Iron Age pottery from the pits. The ditch sequence may represent a Bronze Age to Iron Age multiple ditch, similar to that identified in the Phase 1 works (Savage et al., 2021); however, the Phase 1 ditch overlay a pit alignment thought to be of Neolithic date, while the pit alignments on the Phase 3 site post-dated the ditch. The 2006 East Midlands Archaeological Research Framework notes that multiple-ditch boundaries are numerous in the East Midlands: they are normally traceable for a few hundred metres, although lengths of up to 3km have been recorded. Some were long-lived; some show re-cutting; some are certainly multi-period, and extra ditches may have been added during their lifespans. They are thought to arise in the late Bronze or early Iron Age, and some may have remained in use into the late Iron Age; they are not considered to be defensive, but seem likely to have controlled the movement of people and animals, possibly serving both as boundaries and trackways (Wills, 2006). Areas 1 and 2 appears to represent a concentration of mid-Roman activity, possibly carrying on from Iron Age occupation. The enclosure system exposed in Area 1 and extending into Area 2 seems most likely to be chiefly agricultural in nature, and probably associated with a nearby farmstead; pottery assemblages from a number of the enclosure ditches in the excavation area and two ditches found during the evaluation and identified as elements of the enclosure system could be dated to the 2nd to 3rd century AD. The large ring-ditch in Area 2 is potentially of Iron Age origin, as its multiple recuts indicate that it was a long-lived feature; however, the limited amount of dating evidence retrieved from the ditch fills and closely associated features was Roman, and it appears to have been incorporated into the Roman enclosure system. The substantial breadth and depth of parts of the ditch, with the evidence for multiple recuts and the paucity of internal features, suggest that, as with the Phase 1 ring-ditch, the large ring ditch had been a regularly maintained and remodelled enclosure ditch rather than the site of a roundhouse (Savage et al., 2021). Fewer boundary ditches were exposed in Area 2, but the complex of small features adjacent to two large ditches in the Area 2b extension is suggestive of a small rectangular building within an enclosure. The substantial quantity of charred cereal remains, including five different kinds of grain with seeds of ruderal and segetal native plants, found in a ditch on the north side of Area 2a is typical of Iron Age sites in the north of England, and could well have been associated with a nearby building. The more complex pattern of smaller enclosures in Area 1 appears to have been shorter-lived, as the features are shallower and display little evidence of recutting or remodelling: they may represent an extension of an earlier dwelling or farmstead during the mid-Roman period. The most distinctive feature exposed during the Phase 3/3b works was the small kiln or oven located within the Area 1 enclosure network, identified as a mid-Roman pottery kiln. The substantial pottery assemblages retrieved from the fills of this feature are of 3rd-century date, indicating that it was contemporary with the surrounding enclosures. Although little survived of the structure of this feature, it is of considerable significance, as relatively few Roman pottery kilns have been published within the modern county of Nottinghamshire. As with the Phase 1 works area, bone was almost absent from the Phase 3 site: faunal remains were represented only by a few fragments of teeth from the fills of two features. The absence of bone is probably due to the topography and geology of the site, which present unfavourable preservation conditions for organic materials, and no conclusions can be drawn about the presence or absence of domestic animals on the site, whether as living beasts, butchered carcasses or food waste.