Monument record TR 15 NE 1411 - Iron Age ditch and post holes, south side of Burgate Street

In 1945 The Canterbury Excavation Committee excavated in three cellars on the south side of Burgate Street, now taken up mostly by 48 Burgate. The site was coded CII-III, cellars 1, 2 and 3.

Two exploratory trenches, AA and DD, were intially dug in January of 1945. Trench AA was in cellar 1 whilst trench DD was in cellar 3.

A gully cut into the natural, discovered in cellar 1, hints at pre-Roman occupation. There were signs of more than one timber structure originating in the 1st century. The site revealed continious activity from the middle of the 1st century to the end of the 2nd; with sporadic use of the area as a rubbish dump in the 3rd-4th centuries.

Williams, A., 1948, Canterbury Excavations in 1945 (Article in serial). SKE30282.