A series of undated features were revealed within the fourth area. A section of southeast to northwest orientated ditch, with rounded sides and a concave base was recorded
adjacent to the southern edge of the access road. Containing a mid-grey mottled orange brown silty clay, the ditch was truncated to the northwest by a north to south orientated ditch that had a mid reddish grey silty clay fill. The north-south ditch measured c.4.5m long and appeared to have been truncated by modern ploughing.

At the north-east end of the north-south was a shallow circular pit, 0.35m in diameter, whilst a series of three larger pits were recorded c.1.5m further to the east.

Further along the access route c.3.5m from one of the three pits and located against the southern baulk was a 1.02m wide by 0.44m deep curvilinear ditch, 5.25m in diameter. With shallow straight sloping sides and a gradual break of slope to a flat base, the ditch contained naturally formed silty clay/sandy clay fills. The ditch appeared to cut an earlier northeast-southwest orientated linear feature to the north. The earlier northeast-southwest ditch measured c.2.1m long, before terminating to the northeast, and 0.73m deep and contained three fills. The second deposit was a redeposited natural silty clay suggesting that the ditch had been intentionally partially backfilled. A quantity of large charcoal fragments was retrieved from the environmental sample taken from another of the three deposits and possibly also suggests that it had been deliberately deposited within the ditch.

Directly to the east of the deep curvilinear ditch was a small sub-circular posthole that was truncated by a shallow north-south aligned ditch containing a naturally formed silty clay fill.

The small concentration of undated features within this area is intriguing. The close proximity of pits, post holes and linear features is indicative of possible structures and settlement, however, if this is the case it may have been located mostly beyond the limit of excavation to the south. The lack of finds from the features may indicate an early date as it may be expected that the extensive use of the local landscape during the Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post-medieval periods, as has been attested to along the access route, would have left some pottery within the fills of these features.

Tobin Raynor, 2017, Archaeological Watching Brief Report: Sturton-Le-Steeple Quarry, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT6027.