Category: The Dig Blog

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

  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

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

  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!