A sub-circular pit with steep concave sides and a concave base in one trench (1.04 x 1.22 x 0.86 m) contained a single mottled brownish-yellow silty sand and dark grey sandy clay fill. No finds were recovered from the pit although environmental analysis produced evidence of crop-processing of barley and wheat species consistent with the later prehistoric and Romano-British periods.

A ditch contained a mid-reddish brown clayey silt deposit from which a piece of burnt flint and three pieces of worked flint were recovered. An environmental sample contained cereal grains consistent with an Iron Age/Romano-British date. The ditch was aligned north-west to south-east, parallel to furrows and extant field boundaries, perhaps suggesting a medieval or post-medieval origin, but was also aligned with the natural topography and perpendicular to the river, an arrangement that may have been adopted at any time. A nearby elongated pit (1.64 m by 0.63 m in plan and 0.24 m deep) was at the same stratigraphic level as the ditch and was probably of the same chronological origin.

A curvilinear gully in an evaluation trench (14; 0.44 m wide by 0.18 m deep) was located only 20 m south-west of the Iron Age features. The gully was aligned north-west to south-east with moderate, concave sides and a concave base and had a mid-brown grey clay sand fill which contained stone. The gully was identified at a depth of 1.2 m below ground level, sealed beneath both colluvium and alluvium. It is possible that the feature was abandoned after it was buried by the alluvial deposits that accumulated above it. Finds from the gully were not datable (animal bone and stone), however grains from an environmental sample were consistent with an Iron Age/Romano British date. The alluvium and colluvium in this part of the site may therefore be Iron Age/Romano-British or later in date.

Ashley Tuck, Hannah Dabill & Andy Swann, 2022, Lowdham Phase 1 & 2, Cocker Beck Flood Alleviation Scheme, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Evaluation (Unpublished document). SNT5782.