The discovery of the Great Dover Street woman was announced in 2000 following excavations in 1996 at the site by Museum of London Archaeology.
[1] The grave was a cremation dating from the early 2nd- to mid-3rd-century AD, from a bustum funeral over a pit into which the remains eventually fell and were covered.
There was also evidence for molten glass, gold textile, burnt pine cones, chicken, bread, and dates forming part of the cremation ritual.
[5] It was further enhanced by the publication of a companion book to the programme titled Gladiatrix: The True Story of History’s Unknown Woman Warrior.
[3] Anna McCullough argued in 2008 that the burial at Great Dover Street cannot be used for research on female gladiators because the evidence is too speculative.