Category: The Dig Blog

It’s big – over 1400 pages long – but the report provides the details of nearly all the earliest of the archaeological excavations on the Colchester Garrison site. It includes

I was very flattered and pleased to read on the web a month or two ago that I was one of three people nominated for the Archaeologist of the Year

The Taylor Wimpey excavations at Hyderabad Barracks produced their first surprise today – a section of what is apparently a very large ditch about 8 m across. It seems as

We dug some trenches on a high-profile site near the town centre today. Looks like we found something particularly interesting and significant. As often happens though, we will need a

We started our evaluation trenches on the site of the Officers’ Club which was burnt to the ground last year. The Club house is to be rebuilt so we are

Around t Roman-period burials excavated near Napier Road. More Garrison work for Taylor Wimpey. These burials were very densely packed. There must be many tens of thousands of Roman burials

We are off again on another substantial piece of archaeological excavation on former Colchester garrison land. A ten-week programme of excavations began today on the site of the Hyderabad and

This week saw excavation begin at Colchester Royal Grammar School prior to the extension to the Sixth Form common room. This is an area of high archaeological interest due to