A series of pits or postholes may have formed a post-built structure, given their alignment and relative proximity to each others. These included a row of four orientated NE–SE and thus aligned with the Fosse Way and the settlement boundary ditch.

One posthole and an unexcavated posthole to the south-east of the row of four seem to be related because their positions were roughly equidistant to each other and to two postholes. Four postholes were positioned 2.3m from each other while three others were positioned 5m apart, as was an unexcavated posthole. The distance between three of the postholes and the unexcavated posthole was 7.3–7.4m.

All the excavated postholes were circular in plan, measuring 0.5–0.8m in diameter and 0.2–0.3m deep, with similar steep-sided profiles.

Three postholes each contained pottery, although this could generally only be ascribed broadly to the Roman period apart from a fragment from a Mancetter-Hartshill white ware mortarium and a base from a dish or bowl in Nene Valley colour-coated ware from one posthole which was closely datable to the late 3rd century, and this feature also produced a coin dated to 335–41.

Another posthole was notable for containing the skull of a juvenile that was placed upside down in the upper part of the fill next to the eastern side of the feature.

Although the postholes appear to form a definite structure, it is uncertain whether this represents a building or an external structure such as a fenced enclosure or livestock pen. If contemporary, the location of a late 3rd/4th century well within the structure would suggest that the latter reconstruction is more likely.

The postulated boundary extending between two postholes was respected by the terminus of an L-shaped ditch, which may have been the surviving part of an adjacent ditched enclosure.

Martyn Allen and Lauren McIntyre, 2019, Chapel Lane, Bingham, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Excavation Report, Page 23 (Unpublished document). SNT5816.