A strip and map excavation was carried out along the line of Circular Road North in 2007, TL 9950 2450.<1> Archaeological excavation took place during the upgrading of the road to adoptable standards including the installation foul and stormwater drains. The total length of road investigated was 427m. The excavations provided further evidence for the Roman circus, including the near turning post at the western end of the central barrier as well as another stretch of the robbed-out foundation of the south outer cavea wall with an external buttress. At the turning post, a large redeposited fragment of a cone was found, as well as the in situ remains of a pressurised water-main. Two large pits containing circus-related debris lay inside the end of the central barrier. These may have been associated with water features in the barrier. Roman or Iron Age/Roman remains elsewhere on the site included about 20 Roman burials, some boundary ditches and a trackway/road. Most of the burials lay to the south-west of the circus, and included a bustum and a deep inhumation within a ring-ditch. Other remains uncovered included Roman ditches, a Roman road/trackway, and post-Roman robber trenches and field boundary ditches. Evidence for prehistoric activity included a Bronze Age pit (CRNF15) containing probable Beaker sherds and a cluster of sherds of Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age date. The latter were mostly residual in later contexts, although several small features may have been of Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age date. Evidence for medieval activity consisted mainly of robber trenches for the foundations of the Roman circus. Several post-medieval field boundary ditches and a large post-medieval or modern quarry pit were uncovered.