The Stanway chronology

The excavations have provided enough information to allow us to speculate on the development of the site. As already mentioned, Enclosure 2 was the earliest and it dates to around the 3rd or 2nd century BC. Then followed Enclosure 1, probably in the 1st century BC. Enclosures 3 and 5 were next, sometime between the early 1st century AD and the arrival of the Romans in AD 43. We do not yet know the order. Finally, Enclosure 4 was constructed so as to link up Enclosures 3 and 5. This development may have been as late as c AD 70. The chambers are all likely to have been built at the same time time as their enclosures or, if not, then shortly afterwards, whereas most of the secondary burials (but certainly not all) were significantly later than their enclosures. The most important of the secondary burials (ie the Doctor's, the Warrior's, and the literate person's) are all Roman in date. Further work on the site and on the artefacts is likely to improve and refine this sequence.

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