The only features that could be identified as being earlier than the enclosure system that dominated Area 1 were two pits cut by a probable enclosure ditch (similarities in the proportions, profiles and fills of these two features suggest that they may in fact have been both ends of a single elongated pit, approximately 1.7m long and 0.20m deep, separated by the cut of the ditch). However, no finds were retrieved from either pit fill: their nature cannot be ascertained, and they can be dated only by their stratigraphic
relationship with the enclosure system.

R. D. Savage, L. Brocklehurst & S. Palmer-Brown, 2021, Phases 3 and 3B, Fairham Pastures, West of Nottingham Road, Clifton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire: Scheme of Archaeological Mitigation (Evaluation and Targeted Excavation) Combined Report (Unpublished document). SNT6051.