Yesterday (8th July), the Trust’s amazing find of human remains in the Boudican destruction debris on our site in the Williams & Griffin store at Colchester was reported on in the national press, on the web-site of the Daily Mail. The item is titled ‘Is this one of Queen Boudicca’s [read more…]
Today (14th May), Trust director Philip made a site visit to our excavation inside the Williams & Griffin store in the High Street at Colchester, to see the Boudican destruction debris which has just been uncovered. The stratification on the site has become clearer now that we have removed all [read more…]
Today (17th January) sees the premiere of ‘Boudica: A concert of new music for an old tale’ at the Headgate Theatre in Colchester. Local musician Julia Usher has composed a new piece of music inspired by Boudica, the Iron Age queen of the Iceni tribe in Norfolk, who led her [read more…]
The Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) met here at the Roman circus visitor centre on the 21st April to explore the Roman circus itself! Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… We held our April meeting at the Roman circus visitor centre after the re-opening of the Roman circus site, [read more…]
In August, author Douglas Jackson replied to a post by the Trust on Facebook about Caroline Lawrence’s new book, The Roman quests: death in the arena, some of which is set in Roman Colchester and even in the Roman circus… Douglas Jackson writes historical novels for adults which are set [read more…]
The Trust is presenting a short programme of four illustrated public talks by Trust archaeologists here at the Roman circus visitor centre. The talks will take place on four Monday afternoons in September 2017: they will be held in the tea room of the visitor centre, which we convert [read more…]
On Saturday and Sunday (10th-11th June), the Friends of the Colchester Archaeological Trust (FCAT) hosted a weekend presenting the Ermine Street Guard here at the Colchester Roman circus visitor centre. The Ermine Street Guard re-enact a unit of the Roman army which served in Britannia. The Guard marched in good [read more…]
Nearly 2,000 years after their first definite visit to Colchester, the Roman army is returning! – and visiting the Roman circus visitor centre… The famous Ermine Street Guard is a group of Roman army re-enactors and they will be here at the Roman circus centre for the weekend of the [read more…]
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