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August 2020
Colchester’s Street of Tombs
Advance booking for this exhibition is essential. Colchester reveals more Roman secrets! What have the archaeologists dug up now? The main focus of the exhibition will be our current excavations at the front of the Essex County Hospital which is an area once crossed by this remarkable and largely under-appreciated Roman street. Excavations and discoveries in the immediate area over the last 200 years are beginning to provide a clearer picture of what must have been the most prestigious burial…
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‘Dress like a Roman’ Day II
FREE EVENT Saturday 26 September 2020 10am – 3.30pm Join Antonia and the Colchester Roman Society at the Roman Circus on the last day of our open season. Come in Roman costume - get a free Roman Circus goody bag. Want to try digging for Roman tile and pottery fragments? Have a go excavating in the Roman Circus Young Archaeologists' Sandpit. The ancient Romans loved olives - do you? Anne will be here displaying her table of typical Roman foodstuffs.…
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