A large pit surrounded by a loose cluster of four smaller pits. The large, sub-rectangular pit lay approximately 25m (centre to centre) to the south-east of another large, possibly Neolithic, pit.

At 1.80m x 1.30m in plan it was smaller than the possible Neolithic pit and was more regular in form, but was of similar depth at 0.80m. This pit did appear to have been recut, with the earlier fill, mixed stony clay, largely removed by a later cut, with a regular, V-shaped profile, filled by grey silty clay. No dating evidence was retrieved; an environmental sample taken from the upper or recut fill produced only low numbers of seeds of common native weed and grassland plants, indicative of a grassland and scrub palaeoenvironment.

The V-shaped recutting of the pit, however, may provide a Roman date to the recut action of the pit and fill and an earlier date for the original pit cut.

Three of the small pits could be construed a forming an irregular straight line with the pit 10m from the Neolithic pit in the evaluation trench and another small pit in the first extension area: one pit, to the north of large pit, and the two closely-spaced pits and to the east of it were broadly similar to possible Roman pit, being circular and of similar size in plan. The smaller pits typically survived as little more than concave bases, although one of the pits, which lay slightly to the north of a projected line through the other four pits, was deeper than the others at 0.30m. One pit, to the south-east of large pit, was slightly larger than the others at 0.76m diameter, but similarly shallow. No finds were retrieved from any of the small pits, which all had similar greyish-brown sandy clay fills

R.D Savage and L. Brocklehurst, 2023, Phase 6 Works (Incorporating Phase 10) at Fairham Pastures, Land East of Nottingham Road, Clifton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Mitigation Report., Pages 11-12. (Unpublished document). SNT5469.