Projected line of the Roman Road than ran alongside the town rampart.

An evaluation was carried out at the Hole in the Wall pub. Two small trenches were excavated of which only one (trench A) was able to penetrate to the Roman road surfaces at about 1.8m below modern ground level. Roman street metalling was seen in plan and consisted of gravel (sand and medium stone). Sealing this surface was a series of deposits 0.5m thick formed for three main layers which appeared to have accumulated in the late 3rd or earlier 4th century AD. Above this refuse deposit there was a distinct change in the archaeology indicative of cultivation represented by a band of silty loam containing smaller pieces of refuse material. pottery indicated a date of late 4th century (AD 350+) This layer formed the lowest 0.20 m of a thick accumulation of cultivated dark sandy loam some 0.7m deep which contains artefacts dating from the medieval to mid 18th century plus.<1>