Two linear features were partially investigated in an evaluation trench, although their excavation was abandoned when the footprint of the trench was subsumed within the strip, map and sample excavation. Pottery and animal bone were recovered from one of the features, which could be seen to be part of strip, map, and sample area’s ring ditch.

The interpretation of the other feature is less clear. It may also represent a continuation of an Iron Age field boundary ditch from Area A: its dark greyish red brown silty clay fill resembled that found within features of proven Iron Age date. However, no finds were recovered to confirm this, and the feature had a ceramic land drain running along its base and sharing its alignment, a common characteristic of furrows. The fill and depth of the feature were generally atypical of furrows on the Site, however.

Patrick Daniel, 2019, Land off Platt Lane, Keyworth, Notts: Archaeological Investigations, Page 5 (Unpublished document). SNT5569.