One of the trial trenches was located in the western-most field. Prior to the trenching, there were no suggestions of archaeology here, either from the geophysical survey or the cropmark plot. Excavation, however, identified three ditches at the southern end of the trench.

One ditch had a NW-SE alignment with a shallow U-shaped profile and was filled with two deposits of silt sand. Excavation of the feature recovered no finds.

Nearby was a second ditch which had steep sides and a flat base and appeared to be the corner of an enclosure or boundary ditch. It contained two fills of sandy silt, the lower with a slight organic
content. It was truncated by a later another ditch which contained grey silty sands. None of the ditch fills in this trench contained any artefacts.

The ditches in this trench were identified in an area devoid of cropmark anomalies or archaeo-geophysical readings. Whilst undated, they are considered to represent outlying field boundaries or enclosure ditches associated with the archaeological activity identified to the immediate east.

G. Coates & A. Richmond, 2015, Land at Flash Farm, Averham, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation, Trial Trenching, Page 17 (Unpublished document). SNT5680.