The site lay within Toton Manor Recreation ground toward the south-east end of the park adjacent to tennis courts which are to the north of Nottingham Road A6005. The trenches were dug on top of a low mound observed during the field survey and interpreted as the former building platform for Manor Farm. A series of three interconnected trenches was excavated within a clearing between trees on the manor site (one north – south trench measuring 27m, one east - west trench measuring 27m and a further east - west trench measuring 4m). Trenches were excavated using a mechanical excavator equipped with a toothless grading bucket until the top of stone or brickwork was revealed. Subsequent layers were then hand excavated in spits using trowels. Soil samples comprising at least 40 litres per context or 100% of smaller contexts were taken for the recovery of charred plant remains, small bones and finds, as per the approved site sampling strategy. During the evaluation, a total of 13 palaeo-environmental soil samples were recovered. The evaluation carried out at the site of Toton Manor has established that the site has been in use for up to 700 years. Scant evidence remains of the medieval period on the site due to later disturbance, but at least one building of some importance appears to have stood here evidenced by cut stone foundations and a possible foundation pad. A yard or working area also appears to have existed at the north and south of the site. The extent of this site may have been marked at its west by the large medieval ditch encountered in one trench. A similarly orientated building appears to have stood here in the 17th century built using wooden panels, wattle and daub. At least in places this building had brick floors. The similarity in orientation and positioning with the structure from the medieval period suggest the former may have been built to replace the latter. The same is true of the Georgian building erected on the site in the 18th century. It is similarly aligned and positioned to the building that stood there before it and may have been a replacement for the 17th century structure. The form that this incarnation of Toton Manor had taken was already known in part due to mapping and photographs and sketches from the early 20th century.