The site is located at Cromwell Farm Close, Newark which is an access road of the Northbound A1. It lies west of the OK Diner and its associated parking on part of a plot of undeveloped pasture/scrub. The site is bounded to the north and south by agricultural arable fields, to the west by a sewage works and to the east by the diner and the A1. Four trenches were excavated by a tracked excavator equipped with a toothless ditching bucket 1.8m wide under direct archaeological supervision. Topsoil was removed in controlled spits and machine excavation terminated at the top of the natural geology or the first significant archaeological horizon, whichever was encountered first. Spoil was stored beside the trench. Two potential features were investigated in two of the trenches. Both were interpreted as naturally occurring features (tree les) due to their irregular shape and sterile fills. The locations of both features corresponded approximately to anomalies identified in the geophysical survey which were interpreted as potentially geological in nature. The lack of archaeology within the proposed development area suggests that activities associated with the Cromwell Roman Villa did not extend this far to the west but could also be attributed to the small size of the PDA. Given the size of the development, the negative results of the current works and the presence of known services in the north-east of the PDA, it is unlikely that significant archaeology is present within the development.