Element record MCC1171 - Wall, Old Grammar School, Culver Street

Summary

Roman wall, Old Grammar School, Culver Street

Location

Grid reference TL 9985 2516 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

Hull notes 'On 11/7/1956 I visited the former Adams Garage in Culver Street, which was some months ago bought by a London firm called 'Car Marts'. I had heard some weeks ago that this firm had pulled down the building which formed its front (or the east half of its front) on Culver Street. This building was actually the old Colchester Grammar School..' this was a medieval building of some note, Hull continues 'When I called this morning little had been done, but a hole being cut for a stanchion at the NW corner seemed to have struck Roman masonry at little more than a foot from the surface. The wall may be running N-S, but we must wait for more to be uncovered. Whatever it was lay below the broken brick and mortar foundations of the Old Grammar School' <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. 1960's. Roman Colchester Insula 25-40. Insula30, p765.

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Record last edited

Dec 21 2000 12:00AM

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