An archaeological watching brief of the access route was undertaken between Gainsborough Road and Sturton-Le-Steeple Quarry, Nottinghamshire in fulfilment of an archaeological condition of planning permission. The access route lies between Littleborough Roman town to the south and the deserted medieval village of West Burton to the north. Previous fieldwork undertaken within the development area revealed some level of prehistoric activity, and Romano-British activity indicative of possible structures and settlement. Medieval and post-medieval finds were also recovered across the area and have been attributed to manuring. The groundworks comprised the removal of soil along the route of the access road, with features and finds recorded along the route revealing that the area has been utilised from the Mesolithic to the present day. Several worked flints dated to between the Mesolithic and late Neolithic or early Bronze Age were retrieved from the topsoil, representing activity in the vicinity of the site during these periods. A pit recorded at the eastern end of the access route was the earliest positively dated feature and has been attributed to the middle-late Iron Age. Containing a near complete jar, this pit was the only conclusively pre-Roman Conquest feature revealed during the archaeological works. A concentration of features including an enclosure ditch, pits and post holes at the western end of the access route were revealed and are suggestive of a small farmstead, with pottery dating the features to the late Iron Age to 1st century AD. Daub retrieved from the features suggested the presence of structures, whilst the recovery of cattle and sheep/goat bones from the ditch fills suggested that animal husbandry was carried out at the site. At the east end of the access route another group of features dated to the 2nd–4th century AD was revealed. Comprising ditches, pits, post holes and a possible structure, these features appear to be a continuation of a settlement site previously recorded during a geophysical survey of the area to the south and indicate that the settlement was more extensive than previously believed. Other isolated features recorded along the route indicated that the landscape had been extensively utilised throughout the past. The results of the archaeological monitoring have shown that the landscape had been utilised from the Mesolithic to the present day, with extensive utilisation occurring during the late Iron Age to Roman period. It is likely that archaeological remains of a similar date will be revealed and impacted upon during the further works proposed for the quarry.