A programme of archaeological evaluation trenching followed by targeted archaeological excavation was undertaken, as part of a larger programme of archaeological works, in advance of construction groundworks on land within the Phase 5 area of works of the Fairham Pastures development, to the south of the town of Clifton in the Borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire. This project forms part of a scheme of archaeological mitigation required as a condition of planning permission, in order to ensure that any features of archaeological importance are identified and appropriate mitigation undertaken prior to works commencing on site. It represents a second and third phase of archaeological mitigation, following a geophysical survey. This combined report covers the results of the evaluation trenching and the subsequent excavation works in both areas. The Phase 5 works area was typical of the wider Fairham Pastures site in that it included remains from several different periods, with some features continuing in active use over long periods of time while others were redesigned and incorporated into new landscape divisions and others still were overlain by new patterns of settlement and land usage. The focus of each phase of settlement on the wider site appears to have moved around as the needs and purposes of the occupants changed: Phase 5 was particularly heavily influenced by Roman activities, although pre-Roman landscape uses were also represented. The earliest feature group within the excavation area was apit alignment which differed markedly from the pit alignments discovered in Phases 1, 2 and 3 of the Fairham Pastures project in the greater size of its pits and the much higher incidence of finds. The date range of the finds extended from a fragment of Mesolithic to early Neolithic flint knife to pottery of possible Bronze Age date, suggesting that this pit alignment may have remained in use over centuries, but that it probably pre-dates the Iron Age. Earlier prehistoric activity in the area was otherwise indicated only by artefacts redeposited in the fills of later features: where datable, these were mostly from the Mesolithic to the early Neolithic periods. A change in the nature of the land use in this area is indicated by the introduction of a broad, deep ditch which appears to continue the line of a ditch exposed in the Phase 3 works area and dated to the middle to late Iron Age. The site appears to have continued in active use through the late Iron Age and much of the Roman period, with a long-range ditch and a D-shaped enclosure forming anchor points for a shifting pattern of boundaries and enclosures. Roman activity was far better-represented on the Phase 5 site than on others, with nine features confidently or speculatively interpreted as ovens or kilns, although it is uncertain what the majority of these features were being used for: only one produced charred cereal remains in sufficient quantities to suggest that it was being used for drying grain, and none contained a large enough pottery assemblage to support an interpretation as a pottery kiln.