Archaeological excavation and additional evaluation trenching. A series of archaeological investigations were undertaken by Worcestershire Archaeology from September to October 2022 on land off Claphill Lane, Rushwick, Worcestershire (NGR SO 82082 53963). This comprised the excavation of an area measuring some 0.60ha, supplemented with an additional two evaluation trenches positioned to help inform the western limit of the excavation. The areas identified for further mitigation were informed by a previous phase of archaeological evaluation trenching. The project was commissioned by Lioncourt Homes Ltd, in advance of a proposed residential development. The archaeological investigations have identified a variety of archaeological features which have been dated to the Romano-British, late-Saxon, medieval, post-medieval and modern periods. There was a complete absence of prehistoric archaeology, even residual material within later features, suggesting that occupation of the site did not occur until the Romano-British period, likely to have been in the late-1st century AD. Roman features were limited to a few gullies and a possible four-post structure, though the dating remains tentative. There was a considerable amount of Roman residual material, however, recovered from both later features and the overlying soils, indicating that the site lay in close proximity to a Roman rural site. There was a period of inactivity until the site was reoccupied in the late-Saxon period, although the presence of a residual mid-Saxon loomweight hints at an earlier presence in the vicinity. The lateSaxon archaeology was the most significant encountered on site, and comprised several ditches, possibly forming a trackway, and 16 postholes in a broadly rectangular arrangement, likely to represent a post-built structure. A sherd of 10th century pottery was recovered from one of the ditches, and charred-grain recovered from a basal fill had a radiocarbon date of 990 - 1160 cal AD. It is likely that this collection of features represented the remains of a small farmstead, and there was some evidence to suggest it continued into the immediate post-Conquest period. At some point, likely to have been in the late-11th or early-12th century the building was burnt down, and the remains were backfilled into the nearby ditches. A new series of field boundary ditches were then excavated across the site between the 12th and 14th centuries, though the absence of any material later than the mi...