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The Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) met here at the Roman circus visitor centre on the 21st April to explore the Roman circus itself! Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… We held our April meeting at the Roman circus visitor centre after the re-opening of the Roman circus site, [read more…]

  The March meeting of the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) here at the Colchester Roman circus visitor centre was postponed from the 17th to the 24th March, Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… The planned Colchester YAC meeting was postponed because of really cold and snowy weather. However, [read more…]

  Last week and this week, Trust archaeology volunteers have been hard at work washing a very large quantity of sea shells from a site within the area of the precinct of St John’s abbey in Colchester. The shells were excavated from medieval rubbish-pits on a site at the Flagstaff [read more…]

On Wednesday (21st March), an interesting item of NAAFI memorabilia arrived here at the Trust’s HQ. It is a page (page 382) from an issue of The War Illustrated, published on the 12th April 1940, during WW2. It shows five great photo.s relating to the NAAFI, and – appropriately for Women’s [read more…]

                                      The Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) met on Saturday 17th for their February meeting here at the Roman circus visitor centre. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… Colchester YAC enjoyed [read more…]

                    On Saturday (17th February), Trust archaeologists took part in the big ‘tea and talks’ event presented by the Friends of Colchester Archaeological Trust (FCAT) at Lion Walk Church in Colchester town centre. The event was open to FCAT members and [read more…]

  On the 20th November ’17, the Trust began an archaeological evaluation on a large site to the north of Colchester. Interestingly, we completed the fieldwork on the 20th December! The site also produced some very interesting results… The evaluation trenching followed by excavation of exposed features revealed a large [read more…]

The Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) met here at the Colchester Roman circus visitor centre on Saturday (20th January), for their first meeting of 2018. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… We tried to envisage millions of years in a timeline. Using the floor space, we made a 250,000,000-year [read more…]