#ThrowbackThursday Northgate Street

Today we are remembering our work at the former Sargeant’s Engineering Works, Northgate Street, Colchester for #ThrowbackThursday.

Back in 1996-1997, we conducted a series of watching briefs at the former Sargeant’s Engineering Works, to follow up an evaluation on the site in 1993 which demonstrated that Roman material may have existed below the level of the evaluation trenches. Additionally, the site lies in the north-east corner of Insula 5 of the Roman town, suggesting it might hold archaeological significance

The watching briefs recorded the remains of several different Roman structures. The most extensive was a building interpreted as a Roman town-house, occupying the north-west corner of Insula 5 of the Roman town. This house had masonry walls and a tessellated floor, which suggest a second-century date

To learn more about this site, please check out CAT Report 17 at http://cat.essex.ac.uk/