A trial-trenched evaluation, comprising two trial trenches (30m in total length), was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust at ‘Playgolf’, Westhouse Farm, Bakers Lane, Colchester ahead of the construction of a coffee shop and new car parking (CBC planning application 120708). <1> One of the trenches (T1 - 10m long) was located in parking spaces to the south of the driving range. The second trench (T2 - 20m long) was located to the east of existing car parking, on the edge of the golf course. One of the trenches located the western side of the enclosure producing pottery sherds and finds dated to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Roman activity, in the form of a field boundary, was also recorded on the site. Trench 1 defined a substantial ditch, approximately 3.5m wide x 1.15m deep, aligned north-east to south-west (F1). Finds recovered from the upper fill included pottery sherds dated to the Late Bronze Age or Iron Age, a worked flint flake and a burnt flint. Finds from the lower fill included pottery sherds ranging in date from the Early Iron Age through to the Late Iron Age, fragments of fired clay, several flint flakes and a burnt flint. A small undated pit (F4) may also be associated with this period. Only one feature could be dated to the Roman period, a north-west to south-east aligned ditch (F1) located in Trench 2. This contained a large fragment of Roman tegula and pottery sherds dated to the Middle Iron Age, which must be residual in this context.