Twelve trial-trenches (5% sample) were machine-excavated under archaeological supervision, relating to CBC planning application 162399 (erection of 32 dwellings). Stratigraphy was consistently as follows: modern ploughsoil/topsoil (Layer 1) which either overlaid an older topsoil/subsoil (Layer 2), or directly overlaid the natural yellow boulder clay (L3). Plough scarring was evident in some of the trenches where the ploughsoil directly overlaid the natural. There was an additional layer in T4 (L4) where the topsoil had been stripped previously (presumably during the construction of the adjacent properties) and a mixed, mottled clay had been deposited on top of the natural clay. The earliest was an Iron Age pit F11 (T1) with a burnt base and a charcoal-rich fill. The charcoal gave a radiocarbon date of 2218 ±27 BP (cal 350-203 BC). Some was residual Roman brick and tile was also recovered from ditches F3, F9, F10, F24 and F26 as well as pit (or ditch) F22, indicating a local (but unidentified) Roman structure. Other archaeological features were all post-medieval and 19th-century ditches, drains and pits. Some of the excavated features correlate closely with the boundaries and walls of plots 346-8 on the 1841 Tithe Map, specifically a soakaway, a brick wall, and what is probably the robbing pit of a large brick structure. Other features are field boundaries and drains which are either not shown on the Tithe Map, or post-date it (ie, are post-1841). Evidence of post-Roman and pre-18th century activity consisted of a single medieval sherd. Reduced depth of topsoil shows that the western side of the site has probably been truncated. The report states this is likely to be a result of scraping of soil during the construction of the A12 in the 1970s, immediately north of the western side of the site.<1>