Site Event/Activity record ECC965 - Excavation of Holy Trinity Church, Colchester, 1973

Location

Location Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street, Colchester
Grid reference TL 9962 2511 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
County ESSEX
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Davies, G. M. R.

Date

1973

Map

Description

Excavation by Mark Davies at the Holy Trinity Church. Unpublished.<1> There is, however, a note in Rodwell referring to a trench excavated by Mark Davies when the building was converted to a museum. The single trench was excavated in the nave floor near to the south-east corner. It showed that the former E. wall of the Saxon church was a little W. of the present line of the nave E. wall. The church had not been built directly on the Roman Road which was overlaid by a thick layer of black earth containing sub-Roman and Anglo-Saxon pottery. No positive dating for the church was found.<2>

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> LIST: Unknown. 1985. List of Essex Excavations without final excavation reports (1984): Updated 29/06/1985. p16.
  • <2> Monograph: Rodwell, Warwick J with Rodwell, KA. 1977. Historic Churches: a wasting asset. p32.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Holy Trinity Church, Colchester (Monument)

Record last edited

Apr 13 2016 1:23PM

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