A watching brief at Colchester New Garrison (Phase 1), Colchester, Essex: February 2004-December 2005

During 2002-03, large-scale evaluation and excavation was carried out in advance of the construction of the ‘New Garrison’ at Colchester. A watching brief held during construction work in 2004-05 revealed 72 archaeological features and a number of loose finds. Some of the features, principally Roman linear ditches, are parts of field ditches and trackways already known as cropmarks (or revealed in previous evaluations or excavations), whereas others are additions to the previously-known network of fields and tracks within the oppidum of Camulodunum. Other features are undated, or of modern origin.