This week, the Trust was delighted to receive the news that we have been awarded a grant by Colchester Borough Council to pay for new signage around the site of […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
The remarkable ‘Fenwick treasure’ went on display at Colchester Castle Museum on the 23rd March 2016, with an evening reception on the 22nd and special launch events on the evenings […]
Last week, on the 17th-18th March, the Trust conducted an archaeological evaluation at Playgolf Colchester in Lexden. The evaluation was supervised by Trust archaeologist Mark Baister assisted by Trust excavators. […]
The Roman circus centre will be closed on the 25th March (Good Friday) and on the 28th March (Easter Monday), as well as on the 27th March (Easter Sunday). It […]
On Saturday 19th March, the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) held their March meeting in the Colchester Museums stores. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… The Colchester YAC were […]
Trust director Philip took the week off and went to Rome, last week, only returning on Saturday 19th March. He went to attend the RAC/TRAC 2016 conference and to have […]
Today, on the first day of spring (20th March, the vernal equinox), the Trust is already looking ahead to the summer here at the Roman circus centre and site… We […]
Colchester’s Roman circus is remarkable, but the Trust is also very interested in the history of our building, Roman Circus House, which houses our offices and the Roman circus centre […]
On Thursday (10th March), the Trust began work on a site which surrounds the Martello Tower at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. The site was formerly the Martello holiday caravan park. It […]
On Monday (7th March), the Trust’s pottery specialist Steve Benfield found a Roman pottery stamp in a bag of pottery fragments from our recent site in St Clare Road in […]
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