A trial-trenched evaluation, comprising six trenches each 30m long x 1.8m wide, was undertaken by Colchester Archaeological Trust in January 2020 on land east of Brook Road, Great Tey, Essex in advance of the construction of 15 dwellings with associated works.<1> The trenches were excavated through topsoil (L1, c.0.2-0.38m thick) and subsoil (L2, c.0.06-0.17m thick) onto natural (L3), encountered at 0.35-0.44m below current ground level. Twenty-three possible archaeological features – nine pits, nine ditches, a gully, a pit/ditch terminus, two tree throws and a natural feature – were defined. Due to the scarcity of finds across the site only one feature could be dated definitely. It is likely, however, that the majority – if not all – of the deposits date to the Bronze Age. The evaluation produced two sherds (11g) of handmade prehistoric pottery. This material came from Pit F4 in T2 (one small sherd weiging 1g; this sherd possibly dates to the Bronze Age) and from the surface of Ditch F7 in T2 (one sherd (10g) of hand-made pottery (10g) from a barrel urn (?) (EVE: 0.02) with incised decoration. This is possibly from the Deverel-Rimbury pottery tradition and can be dated to the middle Bronze Age (c.1500-1000 BC).