Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Amey Plc to carry out an archaeological desk-based assessment of land north of Stone, Staffordshire, centred on National Grid Reference (NGR) 389985 334836. This assessment is being prepared in advance of the construction of a temporary haul road providing site access within a wider programme of works. The aims of this study were to assess the known and potential heritage resource within the Site and the surrounding area, and to assess the likely impacts of the proposed development on this resource. The Site has been almost entirely undisturbed, save for the introduction of a field boundary sometime after the Second World War, leaving extant earthworks probably relating to ridge and furrow agriculture from at least the medieval period and quarrying activities which are undated but are likely to be later than the farming, all considered to be of local significance