A Roman cremation cemetery was found in the late 19th century, it lay on both sides of the Canterbury to Ramsgate Road (Sturry Road) for a distance of half a mile between the Artillery Barracks and Vauxhall brickfields. Much of the material was deposited in the Canterbury Museum.

A Roman cremation cemetery was found to lay on both sides of the modern road to Ramsgate (Sturry Road), which represents generally the Roman road to Reculver for the first three miles out of Canterbury. The burials have been traced along an intermittent line which runs north and south from the Artillery barracks to the Vauxhall Brickfields for a distance of about half a mile. The first recorded find made in 1861, comprised 'mortuary urns with other fictile vessels,' lying just within the Cavalry Barracks 'parallel to the Ramsgate Road' - whatever exactly 'parallel' may mean. Two more cremation burials with pottery vessels were observed during drainage works in May 1862, 10ft. apart and 4 ft. below the surface, near the messroom of the Artillery Barracks, about 60 ft. east of Ramsgate Road. Other notable burials were found in digging for brickearth at Vauxhall, at intervals between 1870 and 1873.

Brent, J., 1879, Canterbury in Olden Time. (Article in monograph). SKE29965.

Wheeler, R. E. M., 1932, Romano-British Kent (Monograph). SKE30871.