A large religious complex was constructed at some point in the later 1st century AD, comprising a square-shaped temple enclosure c.1ha. in area, defined by a ditch (with an east-facing entrance) that is almost certainly late Iron Age in origin, with a double portico (with triple walls) around the outside and with a temple, comprising cella and ambulatory (14m in width), in the south-east corner of the corner. The Roman portico itself was set within a larger walled enclosure or temenos (c.2.65ha. in area), which abutted another large (c.4ha.) walled area to the east (see MCC7043 for both), to the north of the theatre (MCC2831) and north of the site of Cunobelin's farmstead (MCC7044).

Limited trial-trenched evaluation in 2004 on Stanway School playing field (now Woden Avenue) defined undated parallel ditches aligned NW-SE (also defined by aerial photography), probably defining a trackway, as well as an undated post-hole and a pit contained three abraded sherds of probable Late Iron Age (or possibly earlier Bronze Age pottery). No further investigation was undertaken in advance or during the housing development.

Late Iron Age ?defensive earthwork.

Earliest occupation on site dated to 12th- 13th Century extending to the 16th Century, during the 17th C the street frontage was built up .

Cropmarks: half of a sub-circular enclosure with two entrances in the southern course of its ditch, a small ring ditch with central `pit' within it and other ditches to the west in the same field.

Four ring ditches and pits within a subrectangular enclosure, recorded as cropmarks by air photography.

Colchester Archaeological Trust undertook a watching brief during groundworks for infrastructure works for a row of town-houses (Tansley House) at the University of Essex’s new research park, the ‘Knowledge Gateway’ during 2012. The watching brief followed an evaluation by Essex CC Field Archaeology Unit in 2004 (ECC2845).

Features relating to the Civil War and later wars were uncovered on this site.

Cropmarks, showing linear features, possible field system, and ring-ditches.

Cropmarks: large ring ditch cut by a broad ditch.