Three evaluation trenches were designed to investigate the square enclosure ditch that was seen on the geophysical survey.

The first evaluation trench contained a NW-SE aligned ditch measuring 2.35m wide by 0.58m deep that was re-cut on its northern edge by a smaller NW-SE ditch which measured 1.24m wide by 0.28m deep. The main ditch was filled with a natural silty clay fill which produced a small amount of mid Bronze Age pottery. An internal ditch, which measured 0.42m wide by 0.22m deep, was excavated. This contained a single natural clayey silt fill and produced 10 sherds of Bronze Age pottery. This ditch truncated an undated pit that was filled with a single naturally silted fill.

The second evaluation trench contained a N-S aligned ditch which formed the eastern side of the enclosure ditch. The ditch contained two naturally silted fills and was partly cut through the natural limestone. The two fills both produced a small amount of animal bone.

The third evaluation trench contained the N-S aligned western side of the enclosure. The ditch measured 1.64m wide by 0.54m deep and contained four fills. The fills were probably the result of natural silting and produced a small amount of animal bone.

Lee Sparks, 2018, Fernwood Extension North, Newark, Nottinghamshire, Page 5-6 (Unpublished document). SNT5603.