Remains of a reinforced concrete Second World War air raid shelter were found in evaluation trenches 5 and 6.

Trench 5: "The air raid shelter walls (015) were comprised of concrete reinforced with rebar and were up to 0.25m thick. A narrow 0.85m wide northwest-southeast aligned corridor opened onto a doorway to a northeast-southwest aligned corridor measuring c 1.50m wide. It was not possible to measure the surviving depth of the shelter due to the amount of concrete rubble within the structure."

"Trench 6 contained a northeast-southwest aligned 1.50m wide corridor of the air raid shelter (016) and its return at the extreme southern end of the trench. When tied in with the exposed walls in trench 5, the shelter consisted of the typical ‘H’ shape in plan common to many WWII air raid shelters."

"The concrete walls of the shelter (016) were 0.15m-0.18m thick but were badly damaged during demolition." (1)

<1> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2010, Archaeological evaluation and assessment of land at Victoria House, Military Road, Canterbury, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31803.