12 foundations pads, each measuring 0.80m square x 0.80m deep, were excavated in September 2013 for the construction of a link canopy between two existing school buildings on the eastern side of the school. The position of the new canopy straddles the predicted line of the northern wall of enclosure (temenos) of Colchester Temple II. <1> The foundation pads were excavated under archaeological supervision using a tracked excavator, through two layers: L1, a modern hardstanding and its associated sub-base 250-300mm thick, sealing L2, a silt/clay accumulation horizon 400-500mm thick. L2 sealed either L3 (natural boulder clay with occasional patches of gravel), or (in pads 9 and 12) a Roman compacted gravel layer (L4). There were no archaeological cut features. The excavation of the pads revealed no sign of the temenos wall (destroyed by previous building work or perhaps the line of the wall was avoided?) or any cut features, but there were patches of compacted gravel in two of the pad-holes (9 and 12). A very small quantity of Roman tile and a mid-1st century sherd were recovered from the gravel.