Of the four discrete features that were datable to the late Roman phase, three could be interpreted as located within the row of small enclosures formed by the ditches (MNT28957) with MNT28954.

A small pit, which lay within the curve of the northern end of MNT28954, was interpreted as a heavily truncated kiln or oven base. It was 1.48m long and 0.62m wide, aligned roughly north to south, with the typical spoon shape of a Roman kiln; the broader, deeper north end, thought to be the oven chamber, survived to a depth of only 0.14m, with a shallow, bowl-shaped profile, while the narrower flue extended to the south. Its single fill, dark bluish-grey sandy silt, contained angular stone fragments that may have been rubble from a stone kiln structure; three sherds of 2nd- to 3rd-century pottery were retrieved from it, and an environmental sample produced 16 charred grains of spelt wheat with some emmer wheat and barley, with seeds from potentially edible plants – brassicas and goosefoot – although these may also have represented field-edge wild plants. The quantity of cereal remains recovered was small in comparison with that from the possible corn-drying oven (MNT28953), suggesting that this kiln or oven was operating close to a food production or crop processing area rather than that it was itself being used for the purpose of processing harvested cereals.

A second kiln or oven, of similar spoon-shaped plan form was situated immediately to the west of the truncated oven base, on a different alignment: the feature was aligned north-west to south-east, with the oven chamber at the north-western end and the flue extending to the edge of the truncated oven base. This oven was also severely truncated, surviving to 1.20m in length, while the excavated section across the flue was 0.38m wide and only 0.08m deep; its single fill, dark bluish-grey sandy silt, contained abundant charcoal with a single large, angular, heat affected stone fragment, probably an element of the former kiln structure, lying at the base of the oven chamber, but produced no finds. Its position suggests that it falls into broadly the same phase as truncated oven base, although the two ovens are too close together to have been in operation at exactly the same time.

Two large pits were located towards the centre of the ditc group complex (MNT28957), to the south of one of the ditch fragments and almost mirroring the two similarly-sized mid-Roman pits to the north of the ditch. The larger western pit was sub-oval, shallow in proportion to its plan size at 3.50m x 2.75m x 0.58m; as with the large pit within D-shaped enclosure (MNT28952), the feature profile, with concave base, seems to rule out possible interpretations as an extraction or working pit, where a flat base would be more likely. A blackish-brown lower fill produced 28 sherds of late 2nd- to mid-3rd-century pottery, including fragments of two samian ware bowls, while sherds from a single 3rd-century or later grey ware jar were retrieved from the deeper upper fill. Another pit to the east survived only as a gradual break of slope to a flat base, approximately 2m in diameter and 0.10m deep – plough-scars on the surface of the natural nearby suggested heavy truncation of this area. 15 potsherds, including nine sherds from one vessel of black-burnished ware type, were retrieved from the partially mineralised sand fill, but the assemblage could only be very broadly dated as late 1st- to mid-4th century; many of the sherds were abraded, suggesting a high level of redeposition.

A small, sub-oval pit was the easternmost of a roughly east-to-west-aligned row of some six intercutting pit bases, all truncated above, located near the centre of D-shaped enclosure (MNT28952). It was the only one of the row of pits to be accurately datable: it had been reduced to little more than a concave base, 1.08m x 0.62m in plan but only 0.24m deep, and its single fill produced 11 sherds from the same Black-Burnished Ware jar, of later 3rd or possibly 4th-century date, with one grey ware sherd. Four of the other five pits, which were of similar size or shallower, produced low numbers of potsherds, but these could only be identified as generally Roman; the purpose of the pits is unknown, although opportunistic disposal of small quantities of refuse may be plausible.

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.