The mains drainage trench was dug across Millgate … at about 1.2m below the present road surface a dark band of gravel c.1.75m long and dipping to the W may have been an earlier road surface. Below this was 0.65m of made up ground consisting of bands of soil and gravel above natural yellow gravel. (1)
See L11283 and L11284 for further finds of metalling under possible Roman roads withiin Newark.

<1> JSAC, July 1991, An Archaeological Watching Brief on Land to the West of Edward Avenue, Newark, Nottinghamshire, pp 6 - 7 (Unpublished document). SNT2103.