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6 December 2019 S Rowley

Busy day at the Roman Circus Visitor Centre

The first handmade craft market held at the Roman Circus Visitor Centre was a resounding success. A big ‘THANK YOU’ to everyone who came along on 1 December 2019 and supported

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19 November 2019 Philip Crummy

Special visitors from Changsha city

              Today we gave a very special welcome to twenty-one town planners from Changsha city in Hunan province in China. They came to Colchester

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6 November 2019 Philip Crummy

Giddy up! Live horses return at last to the Roman Circus. And what’s more – they were small!

[fvplayer id=”12″]Friday 25th of October was a day I’d been looking forward to for some time. In the event, it was an even better day than I had imagined it

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12 September 2019 Philip Crummy

How big were our circus horses?

Dig it! exhibition Bulletin 10 of 10 So here’s the last of the Dig it! exhibition bulletins. It’s a fascinating puzzle: how large were the horses that raced in the

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6 September 2019 Philip Crummy

A piece of broken chariot

Dig it! exhibition Bulletin 9 of 10 A tantalising find from the circus is the decorated head of a broken linchpin. We’ve already featured this in an earlier post where

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3 September 2019 Philip Crummy

Model of Roman town

  Dig it! exhibition Bulletin 8 of 10 Our model of the Roman town of Colchester – Colonia Victricensis – is starting to take shape. You can see how far we

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1 September 2019 Philip Crummy

Dig it! videos

Bulletin 7 of 10 We’ve included in the exhibition a few short video clips on a loop for you to look at if you want. They’re from Jacks (the site

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30 August 2019 Philip Crummy

Not the end – more a re-beginning

Dig it! exhibition  –  Daily bulletin six of ten  Our work at Jacks and the Mercury Theatre, although very different sites, both brought us face to face with an interesting

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