In 1978 the first of a series of excavations was undertaken by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust in advance of the redevelopment of the Marlowe Car Park and the site of the Marlowe Theatre. The first excavation was initally coded 16WS and later recoded MI. Excavation was total and lasted six months.
The earliest features on the site were a possible well, a ditch and some clay extraction pits dating to the turn of the millenium to c. 100/110 AD. There was also two scatters of stake holes although very little evidence for occupation of any sort was seen for this period apart from a single post-hole seen in the bottom of the ditch. The curving ditch formed the outermost of three such ditches here. This is the projected line of the outermost curving ditch of three on the site.

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Blockley, K., Blockley, M., Blockley, P., Frere, S. and Stow, S., 1995, Excavations in the Marlowe Car Park and Surrounding Areas. Part 1: The Excavated Sites (Monograph). SKE29969.