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This #ThrowbackThursday we are talking about one of Colchester’s lesser-known sites: its medieval leper hospital. Leper hospitals, also known as lazer-houses after St Lazarus, are very rare across Britain. Built to accommodate […]
Monthly Archives: February 2024
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This #ThrowbackThursday we are learning about Pitchbury hillfort, an Iron Age hillfort, roughly oval in shape surrounded by a double rampart and ditch, near the village of Great Horkesley. Hillforts are rather […]
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On Friday, CAT welcomed seven University of Essex students to volunteer with us It was great to share our passion for archaeology with the students, and get them involved with […]
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This #ThrowbackThursday we are learning about the red hills of the Essex coast, which are intriguing windows into the industrial practices of the distant past… ‘Red hills’ are the remains of salt […]
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This #ThrowbackThursday we are exploring one of the most remarkable and evocative graves found in Colchester: that of Lexden Tumulus, to the west of Colchester city centre. Excavated in 1924, the burial […]