Site Event/Activity record ECC1418 - Burials on Garrison Sports Field, Colchester, 1925
Location
| Location | Garrison Sports Field, Circular Road North, Colchester |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TL 99409 24317 (point) |
| Map sheet | TL92SE |
| County | ESSEX |
| Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Unknown
Date
1925
Description
Roman burials found on Garrison Sports Field.<1><2> In 1925 P.G. Laver recorded around 28 burials located directly west of the garrison football field and SE of the circular road north. A map in the Laver Papers plots these although not to scale and a traced copy of this is bound into Hulls notes.<3> The area is now the garrison athletics track and the south eastern edge of the rugby pitch.
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SCC48 Monograph: Hull, M. Rex. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. page 296, No 200.
- <2> SCC226 Index: Essex County Council. 1972. Colchester SMR (computer). SMR 13199.
- <3> SCC114 Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. Roman Colchester II: Extramural and Walls. II. pink map AF16.
Related Monuments/Buildings (25)
- MCC2743 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2744 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2745 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2746 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2747 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2748 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2749 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2750 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2751 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2752 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2753 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2754 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2755 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2756 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2757 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element Group)
- MCC2738 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2739 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2740 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2741 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2742 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2758 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2759 Cremation recorded in 1925 (Element)
- MCC2760 Roman cremation burials, Garrison Sports Field, Abbey Field, Colchester (Element Group)
- MCC2761 Roman cremation burials, Garrison Sports Field, Abbey Field, Colchester (Element)
- MCC2150 Roman cremation cemetery, Garrison Sports Field, Colchester (Monument)
Record last edited
Mar 11 2016 9:42AM