A scheme of archaeological monitoring and recording was carried out during initial development groundworks associated with the proposed construction of two new agricultural buildings on land on the south-east side of the former course of the A46, near the village of Syerston in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire. The site is directly adjacent to the registered battlefield of Stoke Field, the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, and to the route of the Fosse Way, a major Roman road whose north end connected the Roman settlements of Lincoln and Leicester. A total of 34 finds, all of iron, were retrieved by the metal-detector survey. None of the finds could plausibly be assigned a Roman or early medieval date; none of the very small number of medieval or potentially medieval finds had any indication of a military function from which an association with Stoke Field might have been deduced.