Archaeology South-East (ASE) undertook an archaeological evaluation by trial trenching (5% sample) on land north and south of United Way, Colchester, following a fluxgate gradiometer survey by Stratascan (for ASE Archaeology) in February 2016. Sixty-seven trenches of varying size were excavated across the two areas of the 7.56ha site. Potential archaeological features were recorded in 12 trenches but none was demonstrably earlier than the late 19th/20th century. Other than parts of the field boundary ditches illustrated on 19th-century maps, which were backfilled in the 20th century, no features were definitively found that indicate activity prior to the modern era. One shallow pit on the south plot (T58) may have been earlier but there was no artefactual evidence to demonstrate this. Some ditch backfills and a single pit contained artefacts, primarily crockery and glassware of an institutional type, that appear to derive from the nearby Severalls Hospital.<1>