A watching brief was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust at Playgolf Colchester, Bakers Lane, Colchester, during groundworks in advance of the construction of an extension to the clubhouse to accommodate a coffehouse (900 sq. m. in area) and during the enlargement of car parks. <1> Parts of two Late Iron Age or early Roman burials or burial-related features were defined. The features lay within a large funerary enclosure, initially known from cropmarks. One of the burial features was a Late Iron Age or early Roman unurned cremation burial, from which were recovered an amphora and some worked bone, as well as a quantity of cremated human bone. Nearby, another feature was partially uncovered. From this came fragments of at least five iron spearheads, a couple of sherds of Late Iron Age or early Roman imported pottery, and a small quantity of cremated human bone. The ditch, which formed the western side of the enclosure, was recorded as it crossed the footprint of the extension. Elsewhere on the Playgolf site, machine-stripping took place for extensions to the car park. These lay outside the enclosure, and the stripping did not go deep enough to reveal any significant archaeological features. A trial-trenched evaluation was carried out in May 2012 (CAT Report 647). <2>