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Mar
Mar
Happy #FindsFriday everyone! Today, we have a lovely medium-sized post-medieval bowl, probably dating to the late 16th-18th century 🍲 Personally, our favourite part of the bowl, other than the lovely glaze on […]
Tag Archives: colchester
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Mar
Mar
This week for #FindsFriday we’re continuing our discussions about 21 St Peter’s Street, Colchester. The waterlogged drain (F7) that we showed you yesterday was exciting for more than one reason – in […]
10
Mar
Mar
This #FindsFriday we are looking at animal bone!🐾 As one of our most common find types we see it almost every day, although it’s not as glamorous as something like a coin […]
03
Mar
Mar
This #FindsFriday we are looking at some pottery from the St Helena School excavations in October-November 2014. This particular sherd is a Gallo-Belgic ware, which was imported from the late 1st century […]
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Feb
Feb
Today for #FindsFriday we will be looking at an amphora from our excavation at Handford House, Queens Road, in 2003-5. Some finds we uncover can cause us some logistical problems if they […]
23
Feb
Feb
For this weeks #ThrowbackThursday we’re going to be taking a look at our excavation at Fenwick (formerly Williams and Griffins) in 2014. During our excavations on the site we found […]
17
Feb
Feb
Today, for #FindsFriday we will be looking at two lovely picture lamps from the Garrison Area E excavations in 2013 (see yesterday’s post for more information about the site) These were both […]
10
Feb
Feb
For this week’s #FindsFriday we have a lovely vessel from a recent site in Colchester👀 Here we have a complete Roman bowl. It is made out of black-surfaced ware 1, which dates […]
03
Feb
Feb
This #FindsFriday our Project Osteologist Meg will be discussing a type of burials known as ‘deviant burials’ So, what is a deviant burial? Deviant burials are where an individual may have been […]
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Jan
Jan
Another week, another #FindsFriday! This week we’re going to be looking at a wooden paddle found during excavations at Colchester Institute in 2007/8. 😲 Wood is an uncommon find on archaeological […]