In April and August 1953 the cellar and grounds of no 44 Watling Street were investigated by the Canterbury Excavation Committee. This site lay south of the street opposite Lady Huntingdon's Chapel and the trenches were coded C XXIII-C XXIV L.
Roman Watling Street was found, and to the south of it a timber framed building. The street had clearly been closed or diverted during the second century when the entire width of the first three surfaces of metalling was overlaid by an opus Signinum floor; this was associated with a timber sleeper-beam trench and must have been part of a building. The building was later demolished and Watling Street resumed its earlier course.

Ordnance Survey, 1873, 1st edition map of Canterbury 1873 (Map). SKE30447.

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

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.