The proposed site is 1.5miles southeast of the centre of Newark-on-Trent on the east side of the B6326 London Road which extends from Newark to Balderton to the south; the site is part of Highfields School. The evaluation comprised fourteen trenches each 20m x 2m, positioned in 5 areas of the geophysical survey. Trenches were initially machine excavated using a smooth wide bucket on a wheeled JCB excavator. They were manually cleaned, and archaeological features excavated by hand. A complex of ditches and occasional pits were revealed to the north and east of the school buildings. Dating evidence indicates small scale activity in the Iron Age and Roman periods associated with an enclosure to the north of the school, and medieval and post-medieval agricultural activity.