The plots that adjoined the Fosse Way were bounded to the rear by a long ditched boundary that was recorded for a distance of 390m.Toward the northern end of the excavation area, the ditch curved eastward, away from the presumed alignment of the road, although the reason for this was not apparent.

At the southern end the ditch turned to form a return that extended toward the road and delimited the southern extent of the enclosures. The ditch varied in width from 0.3–2.5m, while the depth mostly ranged between 0.4m and 1.3m, though the upper parts of the ditch have clearly suffered from post-Roman ploughing in most areas of the site. The ditch was fully recut along its entire length at least once and additional, apparently more localised recuts were recorded in several interventions. The recuts were typically located on the east side of the original ditch. Tracing individual phases of the ditch all along its length proved impossible due to the complexity of the sequence and in places the complete removal of earlier iterations by later ones. There was evidence that the ditch was first dug around the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries and recutting continued into the 4th century.

In the northern half of the feature, an intervention revealed a sequence of at least six phases and a possible pit, the earliest of which produced 14 sherds (568g) of pottery from its lower fill, which included fragments from a black-burnished ware 'cooking-pot', a flanged dish in medium-sandy reduced ware and a body sherd, probably from a beaker, in Central Gaulish 'Rhenish' ware, together giving the group a date in the second half of the 2nd century. A later phase of the boundary in this intervention yielded a coin dated to 347–8 and was followed by two further recuttings. A short distance north of this intervention, evidence for use of the boundary during the following century was represented by phases that contained pottery dated to the mid 3rd and mid to late 3rd century. In the southern part of the ditch, a much simpler sequence of only one or two episodes of recutting was observed. In total, 25 coins were recovered from the ditch; with the exception of a probably residual 1st century sestertius they all dated from the second half of the third century or later, the latest being two minims dated to 364–78.

Close to the point where the ditch returned toward the Fosse Way, a localised and evidently deliberate deposit of cobbles extended across the ditch. The layer was sub-rectangular in plan, measuring 2.35 x 3.2m, and was 0.12m thick. The cobbled surface appears to have sunk into the tops of the ditch fills over time and a layer of silt had accumulated over it. There was no dating evidence from either the cobbled surface or the silt layer but the surface was presumably constructed in order to provide access across the ditch and into the enclosure.

Very few archaeological features were observed to the south-east of the ditch, except for the possible earlier Roman features at the north-eastern end of the trench (MNT28466) and medieval furrows that extended the full width of the trench.

Martyn Allen and Lauren McIntyre, 2019, Chapel Lane, Bingham, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Excavation Report, Page 19-20 (Unpublished document). SNT5816.