In 1931 a large garden, then belonging to the Soldier's Home, was aquired by the Eastern National Omnibus Company and made into a large concreted area now lying behind their garage. Archaeological investigation in a single long trench cut from a point a few feet E of Bastion 5 N to the N wall of the garden. A number of masonry remains were located. Towards the S of the trench was a wall 2ft thick, the top 5.5ft from the surface, of septaria and rubble with a concrete foundation. There was also evidence for wattle and daub houses and a red tessellated pavement on a mortar foundation. At Tl 99982507 traces of wattle and daub houses comprising the mortar foundationsof 2 walls the centres of which lie 80 and 94ft N of the town walls with traces of the trenches from which the material has been robbed. Two more wall slots located at TL 99982508. They would appear to be those of the N wing of a courtyard house to the S wing of which belonged the 3 walls noted above. A few feet to the N of the northernmost of the two was a mass of broken tile - almost certainly the remains of roof tiles which had slipped off in a heap. There was also a possbile foundation for a tessellated pavement and masonry foundation for a wall (Hull's site 108). <1>