At the centre of this area was a northeast by southwest orientated ditch, with steep straight sides and a concave base, measuring 2.60m wide by 0.68m deep. Two sections were dug across the ditch and revealed sandy fills in the northeast and silty sand with lenses of clay, peaty sand and sandy silt with occasional patches of compressed sand at the southwest end. A possible gritstone quern fragment was retrieved from one of the sandy fills in the northeast.

A small sub-circular pit with moderately shallow sides and a concave base was recorded at the southwestern end of the northeast-southwest ditch and contained a light brownish grey sand.

To the southeast of the northeast-southwest ditch was a north to south orientated ditch with steep straight sides and flat base. It measured at least 15m long by 1.40m wide and 0.46m deep, with a terminus at its southern end and contained frequent fragments of ironstone within the upper fill.

Running parallel with the north-south ditch was a similarly aligned ditch that was truncated to the north by later Roman features.

Tobin Raynor, 2017, Archaeological Watching Brief Report: Sturton-Le-Steeple Quarry, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document).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