A trial trench was positioned where a single linear was indicated on the cropmark plot. The geophysical survey, however, did not pick up any readings of suggestive archaeology. Opening of the trench identified a single ditch which appeared to relate to the cropmark feature, together with a possible pit, both at the eastern end of the trench. The pit contained pottery sherds of Early Bronze Age date.

The pit was ovoid in plan with concave sides and a flat base, measuring 1.2m in width and 0.5m deep. It was filled with two sandy deposits, both of which contained pottery dated to the Early Bronze Age. Analysis suggests the pottery emanates from a single ‘food vessel’. Two undiagnostic flint artefacts were also recovered from the pit. The feature was truncated on its western edge by a 0.5m deep N-S aligned ditch, which did not contain any finds.

The pit represents evidence of isolated Bronze Age activity in this part of the Site. The ditch, which corresponds with a N-S linear cropmark, post-dates the pit and may relate to the pre-Roman Iron Age activity identified to the immediate south.

G. Coates & A. Richmond, 2015, Land at Flash Farm, Averham, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation, Trial Trenching, Page 18 (Unpublished document). SNT5680.