The Colchester Archaeologist

On Saturday 17th February ’18, the Friends of the Colchester Archaeological Trust (FCAT) will be hosting a big ‘tea and talks’ event at Lion Walk Congregational Church in Colchester. This is a long-established and popular annual event. Trust archaeologists will present brief illustrated talks on some of our recent projects (from 2017), followed by tea/coffee and home-made cakes, when the archaeologists will mingle and chat! This year, the illustrated talks will be as follows: *** Trust pottery specialist Steve Benfield will discuss the very interesting Neolithic pottery (‘Fengate ware’) from a site at Frating near Colchester. ‘Fengate ware’ is thought [read more…]

. Happy new year from the Colchester Archaeological Trust at the site of the Roman circus in Colchester, in the UK. We send everyone our best wishes for the new year, but especially to all our clients and professional partners, to all our visitors and customers at the Roman circus visitor centre and tea room, to all our great volunteers, to all our followers on Twitter and Facebook, and to all our visitors to this web-site and our blog. The Trust has had a great year and we thank everyone for your support in 2017. We look forward to working [read more…]