An archaeological trial-trenched evaluation (six trenches totalling 25m in length) was undertaken by Colchester Archaeological Trust in January 2007 at the corner of Nunns Road and Short Cut Road (in Insula 2 of the Roman town). <1> The evaluation found modern strata, drains and footings lying over a considerable depth of post-medieval soils. The highest significant archaeological horizons were generally Roman in date, and were found at depths ranging from 1.3m to 1.8m below present ground-level (i.e. the car park surface). In T1, the highest significant archaeological horizon in the northern part of the trench was a post medieval organic horizon L14, at 1.8m to 2.0m below ground-level. In the southern part of T1, the highest significant horizon was L19, the top of which was at 2.0m below ground-level. (A post-medieval wall foundation F1, 0.7m below the surface, was not considered to be significant.). The stratification was similar in all trenches. The highest significant archaeological horizon was in T4, L25 (a layer of Roman demolition debris) at 1.3m below ground level. The Roman demolition horizon was not sampled to any great extent on this site, because it was too deeply buried for safe work. The evaluation produced only a few sherds of Roman pottery (4 sherds weighing 28g). A significant quantity of Roman brick, tile, tesserae and painted wall plaster from this site found in residual contexts (post-medieval soils) indivate that Roman buildings once stood here. They were presumably demolished by the medieval period at the latest. Historic maps indicate that this was an area of gardens in the post-medieval period. That fact, combined with the gradual infilling of buildings over the 18th to 20th centuries, would explain the depths of soil and the modern footings and drains found here.