Between 1956 and 1959 Frank Jenkins, of the Canterbury Excavation Committee, conducted the digging of several archaeological trenches in the Whitehall Road area during construction of a new road (Rheims Way). The trenches were coded CXXVI W VI .

The excavation provided good evidence for Belgic occupation. Squares A-I were opened during 1956 and features recorded included at least five pits of 'Belgic'/mid-late 1st century date, a small oven and a small pit of burnt bones of similar date, a beam slot, two rectangular gravel features of late 1st/early 2nd century date and a pottery kiln of mid 2nd century date producing mica-dusted face-urns and pinched lip flagons.

Squares J-R were opened in 1957 and squares S-ZA were opened in 1959 exposing a complex series of post holes and beam slots forming part of the 'Belgic' period occupation.

One source states that a late inhumation burial was found.

Cross, R., Whitehall Road 1956-9. Site Code: WR56-59. Archive Number: 1048 (Machine readable data file). SKE30529.

Farrar, R. A. H., 1958, The Archaeological Newsletter, 6/5 (Article in serial). SKE30528.

Frere, S., Bennett, P., Rady, J., Stow, S., 1987, Excavations Intra- and Extra-mural Sites 1949-55 and 1980-84 (Monograph). SKE29800.