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Another #ThrowbackThursday for you all! Does anyone remember this shop? 👀 The excavation of 5-6 St Nicholas Street in Colchester town centre, most commonly known as the general store ‘Jacks’, took place […]
Category Archives: Discoveries
Keep up to date with discoveries old and new through our fieldwork across our excavations, evaluations and archaeological monitoring and recording on our sites in Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and beyond!
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#ThrowbackThursday to the winter of 2002-2003 at St Mary’s Hospital – a blistering one for those who remember it (some of our current staff were digging here and remember it all […]
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💡 A #ThrowbackThursday for you all! 💡 Back in 1979 CAT excavated the amazing Middleborough Mosaic. One of our long time volunteers Brenda helped as a volunteer digger and reminisces about the […]
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Jun
Well as it is #FindsFriday we thought we better start it off with a cracker of a find – Colchester’s Roman Circus 😍 The Roman Circus would have been an open-air venue […]
Today (9th December), Trust director Philip Crummy was working at Roman Circus House on the plan of Colchester’s Roman circus. The Trust has recently been excavating part of the site […]
Yesterday (13th September), a photographer from the Colchester Gazette came to Roman Circus House to photograph Trust archaeologist Don Shimmin with some of his finds from Playgolf Colchester. Yesterday the […]
On Friday (26th July), the Trust had an exciting day – we made not one, but two, important discoveries! These were also on two different sites. Friday was the annual […]
Yesterday (11th April), the Trust completed the archaeological evaluation at St Helena School in Colchester which we began the day before. The evaluation consisted of one trench, but then English […]
On Friday (22nd February), the Trust finished our excavation on the site of the new school building in the former garrison. This building will form part of the St John’s Green Primary […]
On Monday (4th February), there was great excitement at the Trust when an extraordinary bustum or pyre burial was excavated on one of our current sites. Bustum burials are a […]