A linear/corridor trial-trenched evaluation was undertaken, comprising 31 trenches along a 30m-wide corridor for the conveyor belt, c.400m long N to S. Archaeological features were defined in Trenches 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 30. The availability of plant, and reasonable weather conditions made it desirable to clear ploughsoil off part of the 30m-wide corridor in advance of the next stage of work. The area cleared was a 10m-wide strip on the eastern edge of the 30m corridor, plus 30m of the middle 10m strip. <1> The work revealed a number of ditches, pits and gullies. These are part of a LIA and Roman settlement defined by the ditches previously seen as cropmarks. The archaeological features were present along 200 metres out of a total corridor length of 400m. Their location corresponds well with the air photo plot. Finds were reasonably abundant: total quantity of finds from only seven contexts was 269 objects weighing 5.25kg. Apart from a large flint nodule (700g), heaviest finds groups were LIA/Roman pottery (3.1kg), and Roman brick/tile (0.9kg). There was a reasonable quantity of residual prehistoric material (99g), which demonstrates activity on the site at a date earlier than the cropmark ditches (perhaps in the Bronze or Iron Ages, rather than earlier). Other finds included part of a lava quern, and a possible iron knife blade.