The development site is located on the southern side of Newark town centre, on the site of the former bus station and access to the public car park. It is an irregular parcel of land, bounded to the north by Lombard Street, east by the former car park, and south by Pelham Street. 3 trenches were excavated as detailed in Fig. 2. These comprised one 10m x 4m at the north end of the site, and two measuring 25m x 2m in the centre and south end of the site. All concrete and underlying makeup removal was carried by the site contractors prior to commencement of the evaluation excavations. The trenches were then machine-excavated to the top of the first recognisable archaeological horizon. They were hand-cleaned to reveal features in plan, and carefully selected cross-sections through the features will be excavated to enable sufficient information about form, development date and stratigraphic relationships to be recorded without preju.dice to more extensive investigations should these prove to be necessary. The evaluation has established that the elevated position of the bus station was because the ground was raised probably at the time when the bus station was constructed in the 1970s. Beneath the modern makeup there was very little by way of surviving archaeology and the ground was probably truncated at an earlier date, just as the car park to the east had been. The redevelopment of the site for the new bus station is unlikely to encounter any significant archaeological remains. The recorded features in the first and third trenches were very shallow and were revealed only after the removal of a thick layer of overburden that may have been modern levelling material. The absence of and medieval finds suggests that the ground was cleared either in order to construct the bus station or at an earlier date. The first trench revealed no trace of any buildings along the street frontage. There was no surviving evidence of any buildings in the excavated trenches and this is corroborated by maps of the town dated 1750 and 1829 which show the land as either gardens or allotments. All trace of later buildings had been completely removed.