A water-main trench cut in 1928 along Crefield Road and Queens Road encountered a number of pits and burials. Opposite the back entrance of St Albans House two rubbish pits were cut through. The first was about 6ft wide by 3ft deep, and contained a few fragments of course pottery and oyster shells. The second was 12ft wide and more than 3ft deep, its bottom was not reached. It contained much pottery, bones, oyster shells, a brooch of Colchester type (c.AD50) and a needle or fillet-pin of bronze.<1> The pit seemed to cover the Roman period from the beginning to the middle of the 2nd century. At the corner of Creffield and Beverley Road a large cinerary urn was found near the back door of No 11 Beverley Road (Grave Group No 230) and a second grave (Grave Group No 229) just on the corner of Creffield Road (Duplicate event record ECC1406) . The trench continued along the north side of Queens Road and through the folley to park road, behind St Mary's Lodge another pit was encountered. It contained many fragments of Roman coarse wares. <1><2>