ECC1207 - Pottery from Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, 1943

Site Event/Activity record ECC1207 - Pottery from Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, 1943

Location

Location	Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester
Grid reference	TL 99738 26044 (point)
Map sheet	TL92NE
Non Parish Area	COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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UNSYSTEMATIC FIELDWALKING SURVEY

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Unknown

Date

1943

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Description

A handwritten note in the paper Colchester SMR records a spread of Roman pottery from the site of the New Fire Station in 1943. The pottery included fragments of Roman amphora and fine wares (see paper SMR for more details).<1> Hull mentions this site briefly recording that the pottery 'was all of the period A.D.5-60'. <1>

Sources/Archives (2)

<1> SCC214 Unpublished document: Unknown. 1943. SMR file: Cowdray Ave, New Fire Station.
<2> SCC48 Monograph: Hull, M. Rex. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. page 258.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

MCC1332 Late Iron Age Pottery, Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester (Find Spot)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2016 1:06PM

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