MCC1332 - Late Iron Age Pottery, Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester

Find Spot record MCC1332 - Late Iron Age Pottery, Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester

Summary

Late Iron Age and Pre Boudican Roman Pottery, recorded in 1943.

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Grid reference	TL 99738 26044 (point)
Map sheet	TL92NE
Non Parish Area	COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age to Pre-Boudican Roman Colchester - 5 AD? to 50 AD?)

Full Description

A handwritten note in the paper Colchester SMR records a spread of Roman pottery from the site of the New Fire Station in 1943. The pottery included fragments of Roman amphora and fine wares (see paper SMR for more details).<1> Hull mentions this site briefly, recording that the pottery 'was all of the period A.D.5-60'.<1>

Sources/Archives (2)

<1> SCC214 Unpublished document: Unknown. 1943. SMR file: Cowdray Ave, New Fire Station.
<1> SCC48 Monograph: Hull, M.R.. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. p.258.

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VESSEL (Late Iron Age to Pre-Boudican Roman Colchester - 5 AD? to 50 AD?)

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Event - Intervention: Pottery from Fire Station, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, 1943 (Ref: ECC1207) (ECC1207)

Record last edited

Jan 4 2017 8:31AM