Excavation and a subsequent limited watching brief by M Dover of SCAU, and geoarchaeological and palynological investigations by ArchaeoScape Consulting, for the Clerical and Medical Investment Group, in advance of office redevelopment. The earliest evidence recovered from the site was a collection of prehistoric flints. The earliest features identified were two human burials, one a double inhumation - possibly a parent and child. These burials are probably outliers from a more formal cemetery, outside the Roman town, that has not as yet been located. Later in the Roman period, possibly as late as the 4th century, the site was occupied: a series of ditches parallel to what is now London Road, were constructed and numerous pits dug; one hearth was revealed. Finds recovered include a quantity of coins. The site appears to have then been little used until the 11th or 12th century, but it was then occupied until the 13th or 14th centuries; a number of ditches and pits from these periods were revealed. The site then appears to have been largely abandoned until sometime in the 18th century, possibly as a result of an increased risk of flooding.