This #FindsFriday we are discussing coins! We found all of these from one of our Colchester sites last year. Coins are incredibly useful as they can give us clear and specific dates […]
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As part of the Garrison Area A1 excavations undertaken in 2010-2011, CAT excavated eleven separate sites (Site A-K). This #ThrowbackThursday we will be remembering Site A, which was based at […]
This #ThrowbackThursday we will look at our excavation at the ‘Skyline 120’ business park at Great Notley, near Braintree in Essex! Back in 2006, we soil-stripped and excavated an area […]
This #ThrowbackThursday we will be discussing our 2021 excavation at St Marys Church, Wivenhoe which was carried out in advance of construction for an extension The site has been a […]
This #ThrowbackThursday we will look at our excavation at Colchester High School! Following on from an evaluation in November-December 2005, in 2006 we visited CHS to conduct as excavation prior […]
For this #FindsFriday we have examples of tessellated floors from the Mercury Theatre😵 Of the nineteen rooms uncovered at the Mercury, twelve had tessellated floors made out of red cubes or ‘tesserae’ […]
Today we will look at our excavation at St Andrew’s Road, Weeley for #ThrowbackThursday. In advance of the construction of 14 new buildings, we conducted an excavation in 2017. Previously, […]
This #ThrowbackThursday we remember our 2016-17 excavations at Lufkins Farm on Great Bentley Road in Frating Our work here took place in advance of construction on site, and a previous evaluation on […]
This #ThrowbackThursday we will be remembering some of our previous excavations at St Helena School St Helena School has been keenly investigated by CAT over the years. This is because it lies […]
Today we are looking at the Butt Road excavations for #ThrowbackThursday Back in 1976, an excavation began in preparation for the construction of the new Colchester police station One major objective was […]








