An archaeological trial trench evaluation was undertaken on land at Chequerhouse Farm, Ranby, Nottinghamshire. The work was undertaken in November 2019 in order to inform an application for the construction of poultry sheds at the site. The development site lies within a rural location off Thievesdale Lane on the Osberton Estate, approximately 1.25km north-west of the village of Ranby, Nottinghamshire. The surrounding area consists of agricultural fields, pasture and woodland within a bend of the River Ryton, which lies 433m to the east and 951m south of the site. The scheme of archaeological fieldwork can be summarised as the excavation of four trenches measuring at least 25 x 1.8m. The trenches were designed to assess the site’s archaeological potential by targeting geophysical anomalies identified in a previous phase of work. A geophysical survey of the development area detected possible archaeological features in the form of linear anomalies in the north of the site. A total of four trenches were excavated to assess a number of anomalies revealed by geophysical survey. Archaeological features were identified in three trenches, but only two of these features can be said to corroborate the geophysical survey findings. The nature of the natural sand and gravel is likely to have had an impact on the geophysical findings, with natural gravel fills within the undulating natural horizon. The results of the investigation were inconclusive and the features remain largely enigmatic, with the potential for at least two to be naturally formed. No finds or other datable material was encountered during the course of the investigation.