An extensive area of Roman settlement activity with possible Iron Age origins, located to the west of Bluestone Heath Road, Donington on Bain. The activity is comprised of a large number of cropmarks, concentrated in several distinct areas, all identified on aerial photography examined as part of the National Mapping Programme. These cropmarks comprised: At TF 2571 8406: probable Iron Age or Roman enclosures, field boundaries and trackways. Visible as a series of four conjoined rectilinear enclosures, with average dimensions of 50m by 50m. Attached to the most westerly enclsoure is a probable trackway which appears funnel-shaped at its southern end. A likely associated boundary ditch, located to the south of the enclosures and running perpendicular to the trackway, may have been an aid in driving animals, and suggesting this part of the larger site was used for stock management. At TF 2562 8425: probable Iron Age or Roman boundary ditch. Visible as a curvilinear single-ditched feature, running for approximately 800m and possibly forming the northern boundary of the larger site. At TF 2562 8380: probable Iron Age or Roman enclosures and boundary. Visible as two rectilinear, though incomplete enclosures, located roughly 25m apart, and each with minimum dimensions of 50m by 30m. On the same alignment of the enclosures is a roughly 210m long boundary ditch, running along a roughly south-east to north-west alignment, and thought to be contemporary with the enclosures. At TF 2592 8369: probable Iron Age or Roman enclosures. Visible as an ordered system of two conjoined rectilinear enclosures, each defined by ditches measuring roughly 35m by 18m. {1} The likely Roman date of the activity here is supported by the large quantity of Roman artefacts, found in the area near Welldale Farm (c.TF 256 836), and reported to Lincoln Museum in 1979. The assemblage included a range of Samian and coarse ware pottery, two bronze penannular brooches with rolled terminals, fragments from several bronze hairpins, some 20 coins including a dupondius of Nero, an iron arrowhead and a bronze decorated plaque, all of Romano-British date. The finds were donated to Lincoln Museum, with a fuller description of the objects given in their identification report. {2}{3}{4} Originally recorded as individual sites, analysis of further aerial photography taken of this area in 2008 deemed these to be components of a single, sprawling settlement area. The focus of the activity appeared to be around a multiple ditched, rectangular enclosure, villa-like in form, from which seems to radiate a dense complex of rectilinear enclosures, boundary ditches, trackways and pits. The northern boundary of the settlement is marked by a sinuous boundary ditch extending east to west for at least 770 metres, but noted to continue outside the mapping area of interest. The southern boundary of the densest activity is marked by the route of a palaeochannel, which is flanked by boundary ditches or trackways extending to the south and west. Numerous pits of all shapes and sizes were mapped throughout the settlement, though some of the larger of these may be geological in origin or post-medieval chalk pits. The settlement appears to have been located on top of several earlier prehistoric features, including a number of probable Bronze Age round barrows (see MLI82197 and MLI82198) and Neolithic long barrows (see MLI128003 and MLI128004), with other similar features in close proximity. {5}{6}