Archaeological excavation at St Helena School, Sheepen Road, Colchester: October-November 2014

An archaeological excavation was carried out at St Helena School, Sheepen Road, Colchester. The school is situated within the Roman enclosed oppidum of Camulodunum (specifically
the area of the trading depot at Sheepen), and is within a scheduled monument. The school grounds contain the remains of two Romano-British temples, and the site was within the precinct or temenos of a large post-Boudiccan temple dedicated to
Jupiter (Colchester’s Temple 2). The excavation revealed Roman activity comprising nine pits, one of which contained 26 low- denomination 1st-century AD coins. Also revealed were patches of the gravelled surface of the temple precinct and the cobble and
mortar wall foundations of a small internal altar or similar structure.