Today (28th April), an item was posted on the Magna Carta 800 web-site titled ‘How to teach … the Magna Carta’, which presents an item posted in The Guardian online: […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Yesterday (23rd April) was St George’s Day. St George is the patron saint of England, and the St George cross represents England in the British flag, the Union Jack. St […]
Today (22nd April), well-known Wivenhoe poet and performer Martin Newell revisited the Roman circus centre. He came to our opening day on the 28th March, met our Boudicca re-enactor and […]
The Trust gave our special presentation on the Fenwick Treasure at firstsite in Colchester on Saturday (18th April) to a full house. The Fenwick Treasure is a remarkable hoard of Roman […]
Today (18th April) is World Heritage Day, and there were events and some media coverage all over the world today, including on Twitter. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural […]
For several months, the Trust’s archaeologists and excavators have all been really busy working out on different sites, and now the archaeologists are back here at Roman Circus House and […]
On Saturday (11th April), the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) met at Grange Barn in Coggeshall for their April session. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… Having taken our […]
Come to our VE-Day event on Saturday 9th May! We are holding a special open day to celebrate VE-Day (8th May 1945) on its 70th anniversary. VE-Day was ‘Victory in […]
Last week (on the 1st April), the Trust completed our long excavation at Moverons Quarry in Brightlingsea. [See previous posts in this blog for short summaries of results covering the […]
On Wednesday (1st April), the Trust completed our archaeological excavation at Moverons Quarry in Brightlingsea. This has been a long-running project, and it produced a great deal of very interesting […]