(TR 1457, TR 1557 sited to core of Ro Canterbury). The line of the late third-century city wall and external streets leading to the Saxon shore forts and to London established by Professor Frere and confirmed by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust are the most dominent features of the Roman City plan so far located. Only three intra-mural streets aligned north-west to south-east (the Riding Gate (TR 1497557469) (TR 1522957734) - London Gate Street (TR 1440557848) the West Gate (TR 1460058090) - Burgate Street (TR 1522957734) and a street located aquidistant between them) and two others roughly at right angles to them (south-east of the theatre (TR 1496057840 - TR 1477557480) and a second south-east of the St George's Street bath-house) (TR 1516057805 - TR 1493057499) indicate any regularity in plan. Elsewhere known streets seem to follow differing and seemingly random alignments. Two streets aligned north-east to south-west may have been first laid out in Flavian times (a small section of street located in the south-west quarter of the city and one separating the Temple Precinct from the Theatre). These may hark back to brief phases of militery activity. Their lines, together with a similarly aligned minor street later covered by metallings of the Temple Courtyard (TR 15 NW/110) the line of Watling Street and an early street which ran from Burgate to West Gate, may therefore have been established before formal and large-scale planning took place in the early second century. The line of the modern London Road, north-west of the city, may also have been of early Roman origin. The latter changes direction at the point of intersection near St Dunstan's Church, with the other leading from the West Gate, perhaps indicating that the London road originally extended further eastward to a pre Roman and early Roman settlement or fort on the north-west side of the Stour and in the area of Canterbury West railway station; but this has yet to be proved. Remains of the Roman streets in Canterbury are recorded as TR 15 NW/139, 164, 203, 211, 279, 440, 442, 443, 448, 479 and 500. TR 15 NE/121, 150, 95, 260. The streets are plotted on the 1:1250 record maps. (1)

<1> Roman Canterbury 1989 3-4 unpublished paper (P Bennett) (OS Card Reference). SKE49331.