A trial trench was positioned between the cropmark evidence of two large square enclosures, in an area where several linear features had been recorded. Opening of the trench identified seven rather similar ditch features, of which four were archaeologically investigated. All had an approximate NE-SW alignment, being broadly parallel to each other. Two ditches were seen to correspond to the recorded cropmarks.

One ditch appeared to be the terminus of an earlier ditch which had been truncated by a later ditch with the same alignment. The later ditch had a shallow U-shaped profile and was filled with a single deposit of grey silt sand. A bordering ditch had a slightly deeper profile and filled with a similar deposit. Neither feature contained any artefacts.

In the central part of the trench were two intercutting ditches, the earliest of which had a narrow V-shaped profile. Both features were filled with similar silty sand deposits, which did not contain any artefacts.

Although the ditches investigated in this trench contained no artefacts and their exact function remains unknown, they do appear to relate (in part) to a series of intercutting and overlapping enclosure features and field boundaries recorded as cropmarks. They appear to form part of the northern extent of former agricultural enclosures of pre-Roman Iron Age date.

G. Coates & A. Richmond, 2015, Land at Flash Farm, Averham, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation, Trial Trenching, Page 24 (Unpublished document). SNT5680.