Yesterday (30th July), local builders’ merchant Collier & Catchpole delivered the building materials for our new external store room at Roman Circus House. They have generously supplied the bricks to […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
On Friday (26th July), the Trust had an exciting day – we made not one, but two, important discoveries! These were also on two different sites. Friday was the annual […]
Today (27th July), Trust senior archaeologist Howard Brooks was at the ‘hands-on history day’ of the Wormingford Landmarks Project (WLP), at Wormingford in Essex. This is a community project, in which […]
Today (26th July) is the annual world Day of Archaeology! This is an online project which began in 2011, and it is organised by professional archaeologists. On this day, archaeologists all […]
Today (24th July), Trust archaeologists Ben Holloway and Mark Baister produced the Trust’s find of the day from Moverons Pit in Brightlingsea – this is a fragmentary late Saxon or […]
Today (22nd July), the Trust began the next phase of excavation on our site in front of Roman Circus House. This phase will run for two weeks, full-time, from the […]
Yesterday (20th July), the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) had their July session at Marks Hall near Chelmsford in Essex. Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum include the site of a […]
Yesterday (19th July), the Trust’s Council of Management held their quarterly meeting in the large downstairs room at Roman Circus House. The meeting was chaired by new Trust chairman Nick […]
Today (19th July) was the last day of the week of work experience which two Colchester school pupils, twin sisters Lilly and Poppy, undertook with the Trust at Roman Circus […]
Today (18th July), Maria Louise Kirk posted an item on her Gastronomy Archaeology blog titled ‘Gingerbread Part 2: Cooking and the recipe’, which is about her research into historic gingerbread recipes […]
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