Five cremation burials were identified associated with an Early Bronze Age ring ditch. Four of these were within the interior, with another outside of the north-eastern edge of the ring ditch.

A previous evaluation trench identified two cremation burials in small subcircular pits. A pit near the centre of the ring ditch and was 0.62m across and 0.15m deep with two fills – a thin basal fill of mid-reddish brown silty clay with occasional charcoal inclusions, overlain by a dark greyish brown sandy silt with frequent charcoal inclusions. The two fills contained 21g of cremated human remains from an older subadult or adult individual, along with charred cereal and weed seeds, grass tubers, and abundant charcoal. To the south-west of was a pit 0.45m across and 0.13m deep with a single dark blackish grey clayey silt fill with frequent charcoal inclusions. This fill yielded charcoal, and mollusc shells, along with 210g of cremated human bone from two individuals – a single adult or older subadult and a neonate.

Jamie Patrick, 2022, An Archaeological Field Excavation on Land of Beck Lane, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT5987.