Four evaluation trenches were dug (A,B and D 5x 1m in size, C 9 x 1m) at the First Eastern National bus station, Queen Street, Colchester in preparation for the design of a new visual arts facility which is planned as part of the Queen Street regeneration project. The archaeological material recorded on the site ranged from Roman through post-medieval and into the modern periods. The majority of the recorded features were of post-medieval date, although Roman building demolition and floor layers were also observed; investigation ceased as soon as Roman floors or demolition deposits were reached. <1> In Trench A, both post-medieval and Roman material was recorded. The cobbled surface appears to date to the 18th century and is likely to be the remains of a yard, presumably associated with East Hill House. The opus signinum floor-base has coloured tesserae both in the dark earth above it and in the fill of the post-medieval pit which cut it, suggesting that it was the base for a mosaic floor within a building. The building demolition material from Trenches B and D contained flue tile along with red, white and grey tesserae. The material in Trench B was sealed by an unusual depth of dark earth with modern material being recorded on top of the Roman layer. This dark earth contained a large amount of modern material including modern china pottery and the IND COOPE & ALLSOPP LTD beer bottles. The unusual depth of the dark earth combined with the modern material recovered from it suggests that the evaluation trench was sited over a modern dump deposit. In Trench D, demolition material was also sealed by a post-medieval topsoil, though not the depth of material encountered in Trench B. The Roman demolition material contained large amounts of painted wall plaster as well as collapsed clay-wall material. There was also a large amount of pottery in the demolition material dating to the 3rd century. This pottery combined with the copper-alloy coin recovered from the demolition layer help date the time of the demolition. The material in the demolition material, the abundance of decorated wall-plaster and the large pottery assemblage indicate the inside of a building. The red tesserae would also seem to indicate that the demolition material is sealing Roman floor layers which may have been tessellated. The tesserae and the painted wall-plaster suggest a well-appointed house, the interior of which was redecorated at least once. Trench C was mainly cut through modern disturbance - the foundation piles of the former Queen Street multi-storey car park which was built in the early 1970s and demolished in the early 1990s. The Roman material appeared to be robbing material associated with the houses that had been recorded in the 1955 and 1958 excavations by Richardson. The uppermost level of the robber trench indicates a likely maximum depth for the hypocaust recorded in 1955 and 1958, although most of the Roman remains recorded in the previous work in the area, including the hypocaust, had either been destroyed or covered over by the foundations of the former multi-storey car park in 1970. The material that has been recorded during the evaluation appears to relate to what is known about the east end of the town from previous archaeological work in the area and documentary evidence, i.e. that houses were occupied in the 3rd century, later becoming abandoned and turned over to common land and horticulture, and not being developed again until the post-medieval and modern periods. <1>