A watching brief was undertaken at the Quaker Burial Ground at St Helen's Lane during the replacement of a boundary wall. A 1.4m wide foundation trench for the 12.8m long wall was dug to a depth of 50cm, stopping at the same depth of the foundations of the existing wall. The entire west section was composed of a dark brown sandy loam. The soil at the bottom of the trench was of similar appearance, but with small brick or tile and mortar inclusions (possibly impressed into the surface by the earlier removal of the former wall's foundation courses). Two weeks prior to the main trench excavation, a small trial pit was dug against the east side of the existing wall. This was excavated to a depth of 75cm with the uppermost 50cm consisting of dark sandy loam. However, the soil from 50cm to the bottom of the pit was dominated by small fragments (5-7cm) of septaria and occasional mortar with no later inclusions in evidence. The trial pit was too small to allow any firm conclusions to be made but one possibility is that the lower material is Roman destruction debris. <1>