The Site was considered of a high potential to contain remains of archaeological interest and following consultation with the archaeological planning advisor for Newark and Sherwood District Council a programme of archaeological trenching was agreed in order to inform a Heritage Impact Assessment. The trenching was comprised of three 30 m by 1.8 m trenches, a 5% sample of the Site. Despite being located in such an archaeologically rich environment, this evaluation uncovered no archaeological features. This may be due to there being no archaeological activity, but it is more likely that later phases of building, particularly of the school in the 1960s, truncated any features that were present previously. On the evidence of the three trenches excavated during this evaluation, it is unlikely that any significant archaeological remains will survive within the Site.