The strip of land in Notts which is isolated by the modern road is called Gallows Nooking Common on the enclosure map of 1790, while Stukeley (2) shows a tumulus, known as Potter Hill, in the centre of the Fosse Way, apparently at this location. This must be of post-Ro date, and could be an Anglo-Saxon burial mound: burials of this date were found in the centre of the road at Broughton Lodge. The name Gallows Nooking Common may imply the use of the tumulus as a gallows site in the late Anglo-Saxon period or later. (1) See M18007 for gallows here, M6000 for Fosse Way, M18155 for county boundary.

<1> TPAT, 1991, Archaeology of the Fosse Way - Implications of the propsed dualling of the A46 between Newark and Lincoln, p 52 (Published document). SNT1356.

<2> Stukeley W, 1776, Itinerarium Curiosum (2nd Edn) (Published document). SNT1330.