The Colchester Archaeologist

Dig it! exhibition  –  Daily bulletin five of ten        The discovery of part of a Roman public bath house under Jacks is an important step forward in

Didn’t visit the excavations at the Mercury Theatre? Well now’s your chance to see some of the finds. What we saw at the Mercury Theatre site was dramatic and stark,

Dig it! exhibition  –  Daily bulletin three of ten. If you visit our Dig it! exhibition at the Roman Circus Centre, you will be able to see a remarkable wooden

Dig it! exhibition  –  Daily bulletin two of ten. All we have of poor Caesar is just one bone – one very small one at that. It was part of

Dig it! Bulletin one of ten. It’s been hard work but we’ve finished. The idea is to bring a flavour of some of our digs to the Roman Circus Centre.

Major Roman towns across the Roman Empire shared the same suite of public buildings and services. We already knew that Roman Colchester had a theatre (two in fact), many temples,

OK it is only a very small part of a chariot but it was a pretty important one – it stopped one of the wheels flying off! Pretty good eh?