Site A excavations in advance of the residential development of the northern part of the former Meeanee & Hyderabad Barracks, Mersea Road, Colchester, defined a group of 84 burials (14 cremations and 70 inhumations), nine of which (a cremation and eight inhumations) were within partial or complete ring-ditches. Five burials contained grave-goods including Anglo-Saxon shield bosses, spear heads, knives and beads. The cremations contained finds spanning the 1st-4th centuries, but may focus on the 2nd/3rd centuries. Two Roman burials (a cremation and a female inhumation) were underneath what appeared to be a robbed-out mausoleum (AF158), and a robbed-out tomb-base (AF171) respectively. The ring-ditches formed a band across the northern side of Site A and, where associated finds were recovered, were of mid/late 6th to early 7th century Anglo-Saxon date.