Three evaluation trenches (60m in total) were excavated on an area of land adjacent to the Abbey Field athletics track, south of Circular Road North, Colchester, prior to the construction of a new car park adjacent to the athletics track. During the evaluation, fifteen features were identified, seven of which were modern and likely to be of military origin. Natural was defined c.0.7m in depth below the ground level. Six linear features (ditches) were defined, wich included a continuation of track way ditch JSF (first identified as part of the Alienated Land excavations on Area J South in 2004). Two of the linears were the remains of post-medieval ditches. A total of 128g of cremated bone was recovered from a single context (F11). The material was scattered throughout the middle fill of the ditch in a slightly ashy matrix. As with the material identified during the course of the Area J South excavation (JSF19), the bone was a mixture of animal and human bone. The material consisted of mainly long bones, all of which were highly fragmentary. The scattered nature of the material within the ditch fill as opposed to placed deposits may indicate that the collected remnants of burial pyres were being disposed of in the ditch. <1> In addition to the evaluation trenching, a geophysical survey was undertaken by Dr Tim Dennis of the University of Essex. The survey showed that the site contains many sources of high-amplitude magnetic anomalies, most likely from ferrous materials. <1>