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Jul
Jul
For this #FindsFriday a grey Roman face pot!🏺 Roman face pots would have been made in Britain from the invasion (AD 43) all the way up until the end of the 3rd […]
Tag Archives: roman
22
Jul
Jul
Anyone hungry for this #FindsFriday ? Every now and again (or all the time if you work in Camulodunum), we are reminded of the Roman makers behind the pottery we find 🏺 […]
15
Jul
Jul
Is it a bird, is it a plane? ✈ This is a copper-alloy cockerel figurine 🐔 from the Roman period. Measuring 45mm in length, this small item came from a […]
14
Jul
Jul
#ThrowbackThursday to the Colchester Sixth Form College’s Bath House⛲ Our excavations took place from April 2005 to March 2006 as the College planned a large expansion. Previous investigations had discovered Roman […]
08
Jul
Jul
#FindsFriday back again so fast! This week we have a pretty swanky coin for you 💰 This is an As of Nero dated to AD54-68(!), which on the front has the […]
05
Jul
Jul
A few weeks ago one of our trainees Karl was lucky enough to excavate a complete Roman horse skeleton. In the Roman period horses had multiple uses including ‘noble’ horses […]
01
Jul
Jul
Two pots in one this #FindsFriday⚱⚱ The pot you can see here being excavated by lovely Chloé is a storage jar that has been used as an urn to hold the […]
17
Jun
Jun
Well as it is #FindsFriday we thought we better start it off with a cracker of a find – Colchester’s Roman Circus 😍 The Roman Circus would have been an open-air venue […]
17
Jun
Jun
Well as it is #FindsFriday we thought we better start it off with a cracker of a find – Colchester’s Roman Circus 😍 The Roman Circus would have been an open-air venue […]