The current site comprises two areas of trial trenching located in arable farmland situated to the north of Common Lane, north of Sturton le Steeple, bounded to the south, east and west by arable farmland, and to the north by the West Burton Power Station. The two areas of trial trenches lie to the northwest of a much larger development Site, totalling c. 898ha in area. The work involved the excavation of sixteen trenches, all of which measured 30m by 1.8m. The trenches were positioned to target potential archaeological anomalies identified during the geophysical survey (Magnitude Surveys 2025), as well as to provide a wide sample across the remaining areas of the area of the Site investigated in this phase of evaluation. The trenches were opened in a controlled manner using a 360-excavator using a flat-bladed ditching bucket under direct archaeological supervision. All topsoil deposits were removed in level spits (not more than 0.20m) with the topsoil and subsoil being separated to allow for re-instating in reverse order. Machining stopped at the first archaeological horizon or natural deposits, whichever was encountered first. The trial trench evaluation at Sturton le Steeple did not identify any remains pre-dating the post-medieval period and none of the features excavated are of archaeological significance. The three features identified in three of the evaluation trenches have all been interpreted as early modern field boundaries which are visible on 19th-century mapping (National Library of Scotland 2025). It suggests the areas covered by the trial trenching are characterised by very low archaeological potential. One of the ditch features yielded a small sherd of post-medieval pottery (hand-painted blue and white patterned whiteware). A clay tobacco pipe of late c17th-early c18th and a very small fragment of transfer printed blue and white patterned whiteware were recovered from the subsoil of two trenches. The clay pipe came from the same trench as the one feature containing the pottery find.