Groundworks, comprising trenches for power and lighting cables, joint holes, feeder pillars and cabinets, were monitored by Colchester Archaeological Trust in 2019 and 2020 during the installation of lighting along the Town Wall on Balkerne Hill. The works largely occurred through modern and some post-medieval layers, showing that soil layers against this section of the Roman town wall are largely of modern date to a depth of c.0.6-0.7m below current ground level. The only significant archaeological remains were present 2.0m to the south of Balkerne Gate, where a small section of Roman gravel surface was uncovered. First identified during excavations in the 1970s, this surface is part of the via sagularis.<1>