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13 September 2020 S Rowley

Two hundred and one years ago….

The story started in March 1817 just over two centuries ago when workmen working on the site of a new hospital made a startling discovery. They were amazed to find

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22 July 2020 S Rowley

Colchester’s Street of Tombs

The Essex County Hospital, the Colchester Sphinx and Panis Quadratus. A building, a statue and Roman bread. What can they tell us about life in Roman Colchester? Follow this blog to find

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30 March 2018 CAT

Good Friday 2018: medieval sea shells from St John’s abbey in Colchester

  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

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23 March 2018 Philip Crummy

NAAFI memorabilia at the Roman circus visitor centre

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

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26 February 2018 CAT

Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club February meeting: medieval mayhem!

                                      The Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) met on Saturday 17th for

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20 February 2018 CAT

‘tea and talks’ 2018: ‘a good time was had by all’

                    On Saturday (17th February), Trust archaeologists took part in the big ‘tea and talks’ event presented by the Friends of

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12 February 2018 CAT

very interesting results from a recent site to the north of Colchester

  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!

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22 January 2018 CAT

Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club in January 2018

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

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