Evaluation of an area just north of Ridham Avenue. The site was located north of the Kemsley Fields excavations (TQ 96 NW 1004) and south and west of the evaluation for the proposed road scheme, which also revealed three periods of activity (TQ 96 NW 96, 97, 98). Mid-Late Bronze Age remains were the most numerous in this evaluation, demonstrating the high archaeological potential of the area and a reflection of the Kemsley Fields site to the south. Features included a burial consisting of cremated human bone and settlement remains. Part of a curved gully was recorded in one trench, similar to the type in the Kemsley field excavations, although it has also been suggested that this ring ditch and some of the other features maybe of an earlier Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date. These results support the findings of the evaluation work to the north and east for the proposed road, which suggested that only part of the settlement was exposed during the Kemsley Fields excavation (to the south) and that it extended to the north across this proposed housing area and road scheme. Monuments were also recorded for activity on the site in the Late Iron Age-Roman period (TQ 96 NW 100) and the Medieval period (TQ 96 NW 101). The evaluation extended across 5.1ha of land, the perimeter of which is approximately given in the grid refs.