Several redeposited sherds of early Romano-British pottery were recovered in 1991, during trial trenching conducted to inform the proposed widening of the A46 road between Lincoln and Newark. The sherds were quite badly abraded and difficult to closely identify, but were thought to be of probable 1st century AD date. They were found within an earthwork bank, which marked the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire county boundary in this area. It had been suggested that the bank had earlier origins, marking the original alignment of the Roman Fosse Way, although no trace of the former Roman road was identified in the trenches. The bank was shown to be badly disturbed, and had earlier material mixed in. Further ditches were identified running parallel to the bank, some stretches of which have been identified as post-medieval, and others being Iron Age in origin. It was suggested that the possible bank and ditch system perhaps represents a sequence of construction of territorial boundaries dating from the Iron Age to the Anglo-Saxon or medieval period, although this interpretation remains tentative. {1} The shallow remains of a probable Roman pit or pond was recorded in 2001, during further trial trenching conducted to inform the proposed widening of the A46 road between Lincoln and Newark. A single sherd of 1st century AD Roman pottery was recovered from the fill of the pit, which lay on the north-western side of the adjacent boundary bank. A further redeposited and badly abraded fragment of Roman pottery was recovered from the boundary bank material, though was thought to be residual. {2}