In the summer of 1951 four trenches were dug outside the Quenin Gate in Lady Wootton's Green by the Canterbury Excavation Committee. The site code was CXXB.
Only in trench 1 was excavation continued below the thick Medieval levels and here four Roman inhumations and a cremation burial were found. These were evidently from a cemetery just outside the town adjoining the road leading to Richborough. There was very little evidence for Saxon occupation in the area, contrary to expectation.
The inhumations consisted of 2 males, one of fairly large stature whilst the other two were unsexed. The cremation burial had been inserted into the grave cut of the second inhumation and consisted of two vessels, the one containing the cremation being tightly packed with burnt flints. The cremation vessel was a beaker dating to 120-200 AD. The accompanying vessel belonged to the first half of the second century, both lay 30cm above the earlier skeleton.
Above the Roman layers was found several layers with sparse Saxon pottery fragments as well as a Medieval cobbled surface and a fallen flint wall, possibly connected to the nearby monastery.
In Trench II two successive Medieval buildings were observed with several burnt loam hearths. Several pits cut into the Medieval layers and later a building with brick walls and a brick floor was erected on the site.
In Trench III there was a similar sequence of Medieval building to that found within the previous trench and finds included a bone flute and pottery dating to the 12-13th century.
In Trench IV an incomplete excavation (curtailed due to bad weather) revealed a pit dating to the 11th century, sealed by a chalk floor, bounded by stake holes. This lay beneath a layer of black, charcoaly soil which in turn was overlain by a succesion of Medieval occupation levels and floors, no contemporary walls were found.

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