Evaluation by J Robertson of SCAU revealed extensive modern disturbance, residual medieval pottery and fragments of burnt flint of possible prehistoric date, but no features of archaeological interest.

Evaluation by T Collie of ASE and monitoring of geotechnical investigations by A Margetts of ASE in advance of the proposed construction of a motorway service area. Monitoring of the geotechnical works did not reveal any archaeological finds or features, but the evaluation did uncover a few features, principally on higher and drier ground at the west of the site. The majority of the features were undatable, but one ephemeral feature contained prehistoric pottery, and a gully produced a small assemblage of undiagnostic struck flint.

Evaluation by R Lambert of SCAU in advance of school development revealed three 19th century pits and a single struck flint.

Continuing excavation by G Hayman of SCAU in advance of mineral extraction. Two areas were excavated in 2005. The northern of the two areas lay immediately north of the area examined in 2004 that included a large number of ditches, waterholes and numerous small pits and postholes, producing substantial quantities of pottery and struck flint, of Middle Bronze Age date. This concentration of evidence did not extend far into the 2005 area. The features were almost exclusively of Bronze Age date.

Watching brief by P Jenkins of TVAS during excavation works. A single (possibly prehistoric) posthole containing a broken flint flake was recorded, as well as two more obviously post-medieval gullies

Ongoing research excavation by P Harp of Plateau continued to recover later prehistoric material.

Evaluation and excavation by D Bird for the Roman Studies Group of SyAS, as part of a wider programme of work designed to gather together and reassess all available information of the villa site excavated by Lowther in the 1920s, and accompanying clay pits and tileworks surveyed and excavated by J Hampton in the 1960s. The work located the site of the villa, and a trench close to its frontage located the approach road to the villa. Two spoil heaps near the villa, and a spoil heap for the detached bath-house, together with the general location of this building, were also found.

Evaluation by H Moore of TVAS in advance of redevelopment revealed no features of archaeological interest, and the only finds – two struck flints, a sherd of medieval pot, and a fragment of medieval or post-medieval brick or tile – were recovered from colluvial deposits and the spoilheap.

Monitoring of geotechnical test pitting by G Priestly-Bell of ASE. No features were recorded, but the quantities of burnt and worked flint contained within the topsoil were thought to be suggestive of prehistoric activity in the area.

Evaluation by S Holden of PCA revealed a single feature containing no datable material, and two parallel brick-built walls dated to the late 18th/early 19th centuries, which are likely to correspond to a building shown on the 1870 OS map. Evidence of prehistoric activity, in the form of possible struck flint and pieces of burnt flint, together with sherds of prehistoric, possibly Iron Age, pottery, was found residually across the site with artefacts of medieval and post-medieval date.