The project, with its focus on the Brackenhurst Estate, aimed to understand more of the story about how patterns of human settlement developed the landscape surrounding Southwell. A line-reconnaissance was carried out along transects with the aim to sample at least 10% of the surface area of a field. There were 6,136 items recovered from the fields and recorded. The variety of artefacts collected from all the fields walked provide evidence of human activity in the landscape across a wide timespan. Pottery sherds and fragments of ceramic building material (CBM) were found scattered widely across the site, but it is the pot sherds that provide the key dating evidence. There is an absence of pottery between the Romano-British period and the late 10th Century; this pattern seems to be reflected in other areas of Southwell. There are signs of early human flint tool making, the majority of these finds were found in Small Briggs. There were 19 worked flint artefacts.