The evaluation was excavated in three phases, however the works comprise a total of one hundred and forty-seven 50m evaluation trenches, which were excavated across the evaluation area. Due to the complexity of the archaeological resource within the area of the known Roman settlement at the western side of the site; the County Archaeologist requested that only a sample of the archaeological features be excavated, with the remaining archaeology recorded in plan. Non-significant overburden was removed, under constant archaeological supervision, to the top of the archaeological deposits or the underlying natural deposits, whichever was encountered first. This was achieved through the use of a mechanical excavator, equipped with a toothless grading bucket. Spoil tips were visually scanned for finds. The results of the evaluation trenching demonstrated that the majority of the archaeology was present within the area of known Roman occupation in the western side of the site. Where artefactual evidence was recovered, this appeared to corroborate the proposed Roman date, with pottery dates spanning the late 1st century through to the 4th century AD, with most wares probably dating from the later 2nd century into the 4th century. In general, the geophysical survey plots correlated well with the evaluation results in the area of the Roman settlement, although a number of discrete features or internal features within identified enclosures were only identified by the evaluation trenching; while a number of the linear features identified by the geophysics in Trenches 1, 2, 4 and 8 were not present within the evaluation trenches. Although unlikely, it is possible that some of the more ephemeral linear features which were present for the survey may have been further truncated or removed by subsequent ploughing between the date of the geophysical survey and the evaluation. The geophysical survey did not appear to correlate well with the evaluation results outside of the Roman settlement area and there was no evidence within the evaluation trenches for any of the strong dipolar results identified by the geophysical survey. There was a sparsity of dating evidence within the excavated features outside the Roman settlement with the only securely dated archaeology consisting of two discrete features within Trench 129, which contained late Prehistoric pottery. Further evidence of Prehistoric activity within the site can be evinced by the recovery of a small fragment of early...