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 following phase of archaeological mitigation consisted of three targeted excavation areas, originally envisaged as 40m x 40m squares. Area 1 was located at the south end of the Phase 3 works zone and Area 2 within the Phase 3b zone, investigating areas where the evaluation had indicated the presence of substantial groups of features, while Area 3 was located in the north-west corner of Phase 3, to pick up the continuations of linear features that had already been identified in a previous works zone. The layout of Area 1 had to be altered in order to avoid a public footpath, while extension areas were added to Areas 2 and 3 in order to trace potentially significant features or feature groups beyond the original excavation areas until a sufficient area had been investigated to answer the research questions formulated for this project. 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.