A connecting ditch ran north to south for some 65m, connecting the angle of a major ditch (MNT28952) with the northern edge of a D-shaped enclosure (MNT28953) near the point at which this ceased to be visible. A section across the centre of the ditch showed it to consist of two cuts side by side: only a very small area of the intersection had survived, but the shallower feature on the western side, a ditch, was thought on site to be the later.

A larger ditch was 2.18m wide and 0.62m deep: its V-shaped profile and regular sides were unusual within the excavation area, where irregular and concave profiles generally suggested that features deteriorated quickly and were frequently recut. Its possible successor (the shallow feature on the western side) survived only as a concave base, no more than 0.68m wide and 0.14m deep as found, and produced no finds. Five sherds of pottery from the lower of the two fills of the larger ditch, a silty clay fill, were dated to AD120-200, while upper fill produced a later Roman date. The intersection of the connecting ditch with the D-shaped enclosure had been disturbed during the evaluation, when part of it had been exposed and a section excavated in a trench in very wet conditions. When further excavated during the evaluation, the relationship remained difficult to determine: both features had been heavily truncated in this area, with one section of the connecting surviving to a maximum depth of 0.40m, and the ground had dried out to the full depth of the excavated section; dating evidence could not be drawn upon, as only small, abraded potsherds datable only to the Roman period in general were retrieved. The latest identifiable cut of the D-shaped enclosure appeared to cut the exposed portion of a section of the connecting ditch, which seems most likely to have corresponded to the earlier larger ditch, with the much shallower recut not having survived in this area; the irregular depth of D-shaped enclosure section may suggest that the intersection had been remodelled at least once.

At the north end, the connecting ditch widened out into a broad, rounded terminal forming part of a deep, complex sequence of cuts intersecting elements of a mid-Iron Age to Roman ditch (MNT28952). The lowest identified cut was a ditch thought to be the eastern end of the original Iron Age ditch recut and remodelled by later elements of the mid-Iron Age to Roman ditch, which could not be traced more than 3m beyond the terminal of the connecting ditch and appeared to turn northwards and terminate. Although the ditch had been truncated above by later features, it had once been broad and deep, with its base lying 1.64m below the surface of the excavated area. The lower fill in this ditch cut was undated, but an upper fill was dated to the mid Roman period by 22 sherds of pottery of AD150+ date, indicating the period at which it went out of use to be replaced by the remodelled mid-Roman enclosure ditch. This upper fill was one of the few contexts in which any animal bone survived, although the small amount of bone retrieved was in poor condition, and only fragments of cattle tooth could be identified to species. The terminal of the earlier ditch was recut by a shallower cut, forming part of enclosure ditch (MNT28952): the ditch here was 2.25m wide and 0.52m deep, and also had two fills. A lower fill produced 26 sherds of mid- to late 2nd-century pottery, including one which appeared to have been ground down to create a small disc, 16mm in diameter (a gaming or calculating counter?), while 14 sherds dating to AD150+, including burnt grey ware and a mortarium sherd, were retrieved from an upper fill; the two fills were separated by a concentration of pebbles at the lower horizon of the upper fill, probably indicating natural deposition processes. A terminal of the north-to-south running ditch cut away the outer edge of the mid-Iron Age to Roman ditch here: it was bulbous in plan form, expanding to some 6m wide with a rounded end, and appeared to have shallow sides and an undulating base, with the suggestion of an unrecorded recut containing the upper two fills, although the excavated section ran across it at an angle that might have misrepresented the profile forms of both feature and fills. Three fills were distinguished, again with a layer of pebbles at the horizon between the basal and second fills. The basal fill was undated, while a second fill produced 17 sherds of grey ware identifiable only as Roman, with two redeposited earlier prehistoric struck flints and several fragments of animal bone, some of which could be identified as deriving from cattle. The final fill produced six sherds that were of the same AD150+ date as the finds from the upper fill of the shallow recut and may have been redeposited from the earlier ditch; the assemblage from that fill included burnt grey ware and a mortarium sherd, while that from the final fill included grey ware and an abraded sherd thought likely to be from a mortarium.

R. D. Savage and L. Brocklehurst, 2025, Phase 5 Works at Fairham Pastures, Land East of Nottingham Road, Clifton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire: Scheme of Archaeological Mitigation (Evaluation and Targeted Excavation) Combined Report (Unpublished document). SNT6071.