A small exploratory trench dug inside each of the two inner courtyards of the school in advance of proposed redevelopment uncovered a sequence of gravel surfaces in both areas at a depth of c.300-600mm. These were parts of the surface of a walled precinct around Temple 2 at Sheepen. The finds consist almost entirely of pottery and glass fragments dating to the 40's and 50's AD. The material is associated with the pre-Boudiccan activity at Sheepen which predates the temple and its precinct. <1> Temple 2 is a small Romano-Celtic temple built on a mound of Antonine date, and excavated in 1935. <2> The mound on which the temple was built may have been a rubbish pit. The temple is dated to the C3 AD. <3> Other refs given in source 3. <4> <5> <6>

An evaluation in March 2010 by a single trial trench on the site of a proposed new building revealed a gravelled surface and a Roman pit. The gravel surface may have been associated with the adjacent Roman Temple 2, whose eastern temenos wall lies 35m to the west, or (less likely) it may have been the surface of a minor gravel road running along the eastern side of the temple temenos. Finds from this evaluation are of early Roman date, which is in keeping with previous finds from Sheepen and the St Helena School site. <7>