Happy Monday everyone!🥳 On Friday 2nd June, I carried out a talk for the wonderful Brightlingsea U3A group on the excavation we carried out at the Jacks department store (now […]
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For #ThrowbackThursday today we are discussing our work at Colchester Northern Gateway (south of Axial Way, Colchester) in 2021. Here we conducted an archaeological strip, map and record excavation as […]
It’s almost the weekend and that means it’s time for another #FindsFriday! Today we’re going to show off this lovely bit of a Purbeck column found during our excavation at Ardleigh […]
Today for #ThrowbackThursday we are discussing excavations carried out in 2011-2013 at the eastern end of Napier Road, Colchester when land to the north and south was being redeveloped for two new […]
🚩CAT UPDATE 🚩 Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to cancel our Washathon on Monday 26 June. Apologies to all involved.
This week for #FindsFriday we’re going to be looking at Roman wall plaster, with examples coming from our excavations at the Sixth Form College in Colchester. Romans used a technique known as […]
Another Thursday, another #ThrowbackThursday. Today we are discussing our work on West Lodge road back in 2004-2005🎉 In 2004, prior to the excavation of the property, we dug two evaluation […]
Happy Monday everyone! Today, the wonderful members of Colchester Recalled joined us to get hands on and wash some Roman finds It was an excellent morning of conversation. We discussed […]
Today for #FindsFriday we’ve got an exciting find type that is slightly more uncommon in Colchester. To date only a handful of these glass chariot cups have been found in excavations in […]
For #FindsFriday this week we’re going to be looking at a Roman seal box found during our 2016 work in St Clare Drive in Colchester.🥳 Seal boxes are bronze containers […]









