An archaeological watching brief at Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road, Colchester, Essex: January-March 2001

The site lies on the eastern side of the late Iron Age and early Roman industrial centre and settlement at Sheepen. The watching brief produced an assemblage of mostly 1st-century AD Roman amphoras and pottery of types which had been commonly found previously at Sheepen. Several pits were recorded, one of which was datable to the early Roman period by the pottery within it. A short stretch of mortared Roman tiles presumed to be a wall or foundation to a Roman building was found by the contractors after the watching brief had finished.