Yesterday (29th January), Trust volunteer Wendie was marking yet more archaeological material in the main room of the Roman circus centre. Yesterday the material was from our site at the Flagstaff House complex, which is not far from the circus centre in the old garrison at Colchester. We have recently [read more…]
On Tuesday (26th January), the Trust’s 34th AGM (Annual General Meeting) was held in the meeting-room here at Roman Circus House. It was attended by a large number of members of the Trust’s Council of Management and Trust director Philip. The meeting was chaired by Nick Wickenden (the head of [read more…]
For three weeks, Cecilia has been a Trust volunteer here at the Roman circus centre, while attending a course at the Colchester English Study Centre. She will be finishing on Friday and returning to Italy. Cecilia is a Roman. She was born in Rome, although she now lives in a [read more…]
Today (25th January), a publication was delivered to the Colchester Roman circus centre – we bought this online and it has now arrived. It’s a small publication but it is extremely interesting! It is titled Conditions of Service of Women Staff employed in the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes [read more…]
Alex Jones recently came into the Roman circus centre to set a date for another Aquila session here. ‘Aquila’ is a board-game which Alex has designed, based on the game-board and counters which the Trust excavated on our important archaeological site at Stanway. The site included burials of the native [read more…]
Yesterday (19th January), Trust pottery specialist Steve Benfield and Trust volunteer Wendie were working on the bags of pottery fragments from the site which we excavated at Long Melford in Suffolk in early 2015. Wendie was carefully piecing and glueing fragments together to reconstruct vessels so that their profiles can [read more…]
On Saturday (16th January), the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) held their first meeting of 2016 here at the Roman circus centre. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… Eleven YAC members braved the cold weather on Saturday morning to renew their membership for 2016 and to celebrate the award [read more…]
Today (15th January), Trust pottery specialist Steve Benfield was studying the Roman pottery fragments which we retrieved during our watching brief at St Helena School in Colchester in 2014, to write his report on the pottery. The fragments of pottery from the watching brief include a group which represent a [read more…]
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