Today (27th February), Trust archaeologist Howard Brooks was studying the post-Roman pottery which we excavated at Stock, near Chelmsford in Essex. Howard is our post-Roman pottery specialist. The Stock pottery […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Yesterday (25th February), Trust archaeologist Stephen Benfield was working on some of the Roman pottery from the Butt Road car-park site, which we finished excavating on the 25th January. Steve […]
On Saturday 23rd February, twenty-four volunteers including three CAT archaeologists worked in the garden of the former Sergeants’ Mess, next door to Trust premises Roman Circus House. Apart from some preliminary […]
On Friday (22nd February), the Trust finished our excavation on the site of the new school building in the former garrison. This building will form part of the St John’s Green Primary […]
Yesterday (23rd February), an item was posted on the web-site of the East Anglian Daily Times titled ‘Colchester: Archaeologists find a Roman road, bones and a well’, and including an […]
On the 21st February 1809, Jane Taylor wrote a letter to Mr J.C.: the letter is headed ‘Colchester, February 21, 1809’. Jane was an important member of the remarkable Taylor […]
Today (20th February), a small group of modern glass and ceramic items and fragments was found in a trench immediately behind All Saints’ House on East Hill, during works which are […]
Yesterday (18th February), Howard Brooks of the Trust was working at Roman Circus House on the long-running Wormingford project for the voluntary Colchester Archaeological Group (CAG). The project is a […]
Today (18th February), an entry from Eric Rudsdale’s wartime diary of Colchester was posted online in the diary blog. This is a project to post entries from the diary on […]
Today (18th February), an item was re-blogged on the Past Horizons web-site. The original item was posted on the 16th February on the Irish Archaeology web-site and is titled ‘A […]