Site Event/Activity record ECC385 - Roman foundation at St Mary's Hospital, Colchester, 1848

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Location St Mary's Hospital, Colchester
Grid reference TL 99107 25272 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Wire, William (Mr)

Date

1848

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Wire observed the construction of St Mary's Hospital on the Union grounds 'visited the excavations for the foundations of the infirmary at the Union House, only a few fragments of pottery have been discovered, but a foundation at the NW corner running west made with fragments of Roman roof tiles and bricks cemented together with a loose kind of mortar in which sand was the principal'. <1><2>

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  • <1> DIARY: Laver, P. G.. 1916-1940. P.G. Laver's Diary. 5/5/1848.
  • <2> Monograph: Hull, M. Rex. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. page 244.

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Jan 18 2016 10:18AM

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