In November, the Trust undertook the archaeological monitoring and recording of a small hole whic was excavated in Eld Lane, Colchester for the installation of an interpretation board for the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Yesterday (27th November), Gareth Harney Tweeted two images of a 3d model of the Circus Maximus in Rome by Atavistic, and the Trust retweeted them. The Circus Maximus was the […]
Today (25th November), Trust archaeologist Emma Holloway drew a fascinating small find here at the Trust’s HQ. This is the base of a Roman seal-box. We excavated it from a […]
In September, the Trust conducted an archaeological evaluation on a site in Lexden, at the Colchester Holiday Park. The site report – CAT Report 1024 – was completed in October […]
On Saturday (19th November), the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) held their November meeting here at the Colchester Roman circus centre. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… A lively […]
On Wednesday (16th November), the greatest Roman circus in the Roman empire, the Circus Maximus in Rome, was in the news again, over 2,000 years after an arena was first […]
In September, the Trust conducted an evaluation by trial-trenching on a site at Braintree in Essex. This week, Trust archaeologist Emma Holloway was inking the drawn archaeological sections from the […]
Staff from the Essex Record Office (ERO) were in Colchester Town Hall today (15th November) with a selection of maps of Colchester to show to visitors: ‘Colchester on the map […]
Yesterday (11th November) was, of course, Remembrance Day. A two-minutes’ silence was, officially, observed throughout Britain at 11.00 am yesterday – the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Remembrance Sunday […]
On Tuesday (7th November), Trust director Philip discovered a book in our library. It is like a modern ‘commonplace’ book and it has an interesting story. Trust archaeologist Steve Benfield […]
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