Site Event/Activity record ECC1221 - Finds under Castle Park green house, Colchester, 1956

Location

Location Castle Park, Colchester
Grid reference TL 99941 25521 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Unknown

Date

1956

Map

Description

A letter in the SMR records that pottery was found when the Castle Park greenhouses were built c.1956. The letter records 'what made the find so particularly interesting was that the workmen cleared the whole of a rubbish pit which had belonged to some nearby house, finding a variety of different kinds of pottery, but all of practically the same date, so that it gave a picture of the kind of thing being used in an ordinary home within a few years of 100AD'.<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> CORRESPONDENCE: Unknown. 1956. SMR file: Castle Park, Greenhouse.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Finds, Castle Park Greenhouse (Find Spot)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2016 1:20PM

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