Source/Archive record (Unpublished document) SNT6047 - Phase 10 and 11 Works at Fairham Pastures, Land East of Nottingham Road, Clifton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation Trenching Report
| Title | Phase 10 and 11 Works at Fairham Pastures, Land East of Nottingham Road, Clifton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation Trenching Report |
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| Author/Originator | Elisa Vecchi |
| Date/Year | 2025 |
Abstract/Summary
A programme of archaeological evaluation trenching took place on land within the Phases 10 and 11 areas of works of the Fairham Pastures development, situated to the south of Clifton in the Borough of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire.
This project forms part of a scheme of archaeological mitigation works that are required as a condition of planning permission. This is to ensure that any features of archaeological importance are identified and that appropriate mitigation works are undertaken so as not to lose unrecorded archaeological resources. The evaluation trenching was informed by a geophysical survey, and by the findings of similar archaeological mitigation schemes carried out in Phases 1-8 of the development.
Archaeological investigations in advance of development in previous phases recorded evidence of occupation dating from the later prehistoric period to the Romano-British period, including probable Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, a Romano-British pottery kiln, a cremation cemetery of probable Bronze Age date and long-distance landscape boundaries dating from the Neolithic period onwards. The geophysical survey identified two possible complexes of archaeological features in the Phase 11 works area (neither of which were on the alignment of the Phase 1 features), but only recorded strip cultivation traces in Phase 10.
No archaeology was encountered in the Phase 10 works area, but a number of archaeological features were exposed in the southern trenches of Phase 11. These included six ditches and six pits. One ditch produced Iron Age pottery, and another one, Roman pottery. No dating evidence was retrieved from the pits, which were sealed by a layer of colluvium. Although it cannot be confirmed, it is likely that the colluvium also sealed the ditch with the Roman pottery which would then provide a terminus post quem for the formation of the layer.
It seems likely that the exposed pits formed part of a double northwest-southeast pit alignment, which could represent the continuation of a pit alignment previously investigated to the north of the current site, situated in the Phase 1 works area. None of the features exposed in the current investigation appear to relate to the archaeological evidence uncovered further to the east in the Phase 2 works area, where a further pit alignment was exposed.
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Description
Results of an evaluation. Report includes pottery and animal bone reports
Location
Referenced Monuments (7)
- MNT28862 Ditch at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
- MNT28863 Ditch at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
- MNT28864 Ditch at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
- MNT28866 Ditch at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
- MNT28867 Ditches at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
- MNT28868 Pits at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
- MNT28865 Possible Pit Aligment at Fairham Pastures, Clifton (Element)
Referenced Events (1)
- ENT5423 Evaluation at Fairham Pastures, Clifton
Record last edited
Jan 20 2026 3:48PM