The assemblage of finds comprised 20 sherds of pottery and one worked flint. All were unstratified, either from the surface of the field prior to stripping or from the exposed subsoil surface.

A single piece of struck flint was recovered. The artefact is a fragment of a bifacially worked tool and it has morphological attributes that suggest it formed the tip of a flint dagger of Early Bronze Age date.

A group of twenty pottery sherds recovered from the site were examined for this report. The pottery ranges in date from the post-medieval to early modern periods. Six of the vessels examined are of post-medieval type. Two coarseware and twelve fineware sherds were of early modern type.

Six of the vessels examined are of post-medieval type. Two Brown-glazed Earthenware (BERTH) sherds are of Staffordshire/Derbyshire mid-seventeenth- to eighteenth-century type. One sherd is from a cup whilst the other is from a jar. Three other brown-glazed sherds in gritty fabrics are of North Nottinghamshire Light-bodied Coarseware type (NNLBCW). The earliest sherd is probably from a large jug or jar of potential mid-sixteenth- to seventeenth-century date. The other sherds come from a mid-seventeenth- to mid-eighteenth-century large cylindrical jar or bowl and a large bowl of late seventeenth- to mid-eighteenth-century date. A small body sherd in a light firing fabric is from a Midlands Light-bodied Slipware mug/tankard/small jug of mid-seventeenth- to eighteenth-century date.

Two coarseware and twelve fineware sherds are of early modern type. The two Black-glazed Earthenware vessels (BL) are a jar and a bowl of eighteenth- or nineteenth-century date. Twelve of the vessels examined are industrial finewares or stonewares of eighteenth- to mid-twentieth-century date. An unusual sherd is from a small Refined Redware vessel. The fine red fabric has an internal and external white slip with a bright blue glaze over and is decorated with brown banding. This sherd can only be dated to between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Two tiny Creamware sherds (CREA) are of mid-/late to late eighteenth century and early to mid-nineteenth century type. Two Pearlware (PEARL) sherds are from plates of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth and early to mid- nineteenth-century date. A tiny sherd is of nineteenth- or twentieth-century English Porcelain (ENPO). A green transfer-printed rim sherd (TPW) is from a saucer of nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century date. The small blue and white banded Nineteenth Century Buff ware jar (NCBW) sherd is from a small jar or bowl of nineteenth- to twentieth-century date. The three English Stoneware (ENGS) sherds come from vessels of nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century date whereas the two Nottingham Stoneware (NOTS) sherds are from a small dish and a bowl of eighteenth-century date.

Richard Moore, 2017, Kirton Quarry, Archaeological Watching Brief: New Best Red Quarry extension July-August 2017 (Unpublished document). SNT5651.