An archaeological watching brief on the contactor’s excavation of trenches for the strengthening of the southern graveyard wall at St Leonard’s Church revealed a brick burial vault and a large quantity of fragmented disarticulated human bone (this was reburied on site). <1> Two long trenches roughly 600mm wide were excavated along the graveyard wall. The western trench was 13.1m long and the eastern trench 5.5m long. Two smaller holes were excavated in the area between the two trenches, where there were standing gravestones and an established tree. Excavations initially continued to a depth of 750mm below modern ground level (bgl), with subsequent further reduction in the two long trenches to 1.1m bgl. The large quantity of bone close to the wall is probably the result of the redeposition of bone collected during an apparent re-alignment of the graveyard wall in the 19th century. This realignment allowed a widening and straightening of Hythe Hill by removing a small area of the southern edge of the graveyard.