Colchester Archaeological Trust undertook detailed archaeological drawing (in October 2004) of the upstanding north-eastern section of Colchester’s Roman town wall, combined with the excavation of two trial-holes (in February 2006) at the exterior of the wall to the east of Roman Road. The work was commissioned by Colchester Museums in advance of a programme of conservation of the wall. The trial-holes confirmed that survival of the foundations varies. Where they have not been robbed away, the foundations extend up to 2.1m or so from the existing exterior face of the wall and are in a good state of preservation. Above ground, the survival of the wall is very patchy. Up to 2.4m width of the wall has been lost and nothing of the original exterior facing of the wall survives, only the core. The majority of what is standing has been refaced in brick or stone or completely rebuilt in brick. <1>