A sequence of small enclosures, defined by ditches and possible hedgerows and fences, to the rear of some medieval buildings.

The complex of ditches and gullies to the rear of the buildings displayed a sequence of alterations. None of the linear features on the east side of the site had the broad, shallow profile and regular spacing typical of strip-cultivation furrows: this area appears to have been part of a zone of private plots and garths lying between the buildings of the village and the communally worked open fields. The earliest layout appears to have been remodelled in association with the westward extension of the street-fronting building complex, as several of the structures in the centre of the site overlay two ditch sections, which appeared to form part of the four-way junction dividing four enclosures. It is notable that finds were only retrieved from the features and deposits that were closest to the buildings, including the ditch sections that formed part of this four-way junction, and that a particularly large finds assemblage from a ditch terminal produced one of the earliest dates on the site, with a pottery assemblage of mainly late 12th to 13th-century date suggesting deposition in the early to mid-13th century.

R.D Savage & L. Brocklehurst, 2021, Land Adjacent to Ivy Cottage, Hawksworth Road, Syerston, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire: Report on a Scheme of Archaeological Mitigation (Unpublished document). SNT5994.