A single trial trench, 8.7m long x 1.8m wide, was excavated by Colchester Archaeological in March 2010 on the site of a proposed new building. The evaluation trench was positioned to the south of the caretakers house in the SE part of the site, aligned WNW to ESE, to the east of the precinct or temenos of Temple II. <1> The trench revealed a compacted gravelled surface F1 and a Roman pit F2, c.0.60-0.70m below the modern surface - modern topsoil L1 (300-400mm thick), and an accumulated soil layer L2 (300mm thick). The gravel surface may have been associated with the adjacent Roman Temple 2, whose eastern temenos wall lies 35m to the west, or (less likely) it may have been the surface of a minor gravel road running along the eastern side of the temple temenos. Roman pottery was recovered from three contexts. These contexts are a gravel surface F1 (31 sherds weighing 441g); a pit F2 (18 sherds weighing 263g) and an accumulation layer L2 (1 sherd weighing 4g). The pottery from F1 & F2 appears to be of similar early Roman date and a few sherds from these two contexts may also be parts of the same pot. A modern service-run (F3) had truncated the archaeological deposits along the whole of the southern side of the trench.