Three trial trenches were located in a field where no more than former field boundaries and past cultivation lines were recorded on the cropmark plot and a small linear recorded on the geophysical survey. Ditches were, however, identified in all trenches, although they contained no artefacts and therefore remain undated.

Two inter-cutting ditches were investigated in one trial trench. They both had a NE-SW alignment, with U-shaped profiles. The later ditch had a deeper profile, but both were filled with similar deposits of silty sand. Two furrows were also identified in the trench.

Two parallel NW-SE ditches were investigated in the second trial trench, both which again had U-shaped profiles and silty sand fills. Excavation suggested that section was the terminal of a ditch. A further U-shaped ditch was excavated in the last trial trench, which had similar sterile fills with no finds. Two other ditches were identified in this trench which remained unexcavated.

Several undated ditches were identified in these three trenches. They were all remarkably similar and are likely to be contemporary, being former land divisions relating to the past agricultural landscape.

G. Coates & A. Richmond, 2015, Land at Flash Farm, Averham, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation, Trial Trenching, Page 41 (Unpublished document). SNT5680.