An area measuring approximately 28m by 56m (1,456m² site) was excavated by Colchester Archaeological Trust in January 2007 on the site of a new car-park at the Abbey Field, on the south-western side of the Colchester Garrison athletics track, Circular Road North, Colchester.<1> The principal discovery was a double-ditched Roman track or droveway, c.20m wide, aligned N to S. Between the track or droveway ditches were a number of patches of gravel, which may be the remnants of a more extensive metalled surface. Five urned and two unurned Roman cremation burials (or deposits of pyre debris) were defined to the east of the track/droveway. Four of the burials contained deposits other than pottery vessels. Of the four, only two can be dated: F14 contained a locally-made lamp of pre-Boudican date and a copper-alloy spoon, and F9 contained fragments of a wooden box deposited sometime in the late 1st or 2nd century. These deposits are typical for the period. The closely datable pottery from the cremation burials is mostly of 1st- to mid 2nd-century date, although the date range of some of the pots extends to the late 2nd-3rd/early 4th century. The cremation urn from the burial F12 dates from after the early 2nd century and was current until the late 3rd/early 4th century. Also, although the cremation urn from F9 is dated to the 1st-early 2nd century, a single sherd of samian from the fill is of early to mid 2nd-century date. The pottery dating of the ditches of the track or droveway on this site is quite late, ie mid-2nd to mid/late 3rd century, but that material dates the time when the ditches were beginning to silt up. Presumably they were originally cut in the 1st century AD, and the burials were subsequently laid out on the east side of the track or droveway from the later 1st century to the mid 2nd century, and possibly beyond. Human bone was extracted from five of the burials, F8-F9 and F13-F15. The remains from the site were classified as one probable male (F8), one female (F14), one probable female (F9) and two individuals of uncertain sex. A total of 4.4kg of faunal remains was recovered from the site. The remains of cattle, sheep/goat and equid were identified. Only two small sherds (20 g) of prehistoric pottery were recovered, both from Roman pit F16. Each of the sherds is flint-tempered and moderately thin, and could possibly come from the same vessel. They are probably part of one, possibly two, Late Bronze Age, post-Deverel-Rimbury, plain ware pots. A large post-medieval ditch F2 crossed the site from north to south, cutting Roman track or droveway ditch F17 and Roman metalling patches F8 and F10. Four recent and presumably Army-related pits were left unexcavated due to ordnance risk. A large area of recent disturbance along the southern edge of the site was also left unexcavated. An evaluation (geophysical survey and trial trenching) was undertaken on this site in 2006 (CAT Report 358).<2> The report also includes a brief report on a negative watching brief which was held on the digging of a cable trench along the north side of the Garrison athletics track.