Find Spot record MCC1899 - Iron Age? & Roman pottery, Margaret Road and Catchpool Road, Colchester

Summary

Iron Age? & Roman pottery, Margaret / Catchpool Roads, recorded in 1956.

Location

Grid reference TL 99628 25950 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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In the spring of 1956, a water-main trench was cut from the ground formerly a nursery garden and now lying between Margaret Road and Catchpool Road. In addition to fragments of Roman pottery 'from the part of the trench in the nursery garden came a lot of fragments of brown native L.C.P. exactly like that found at Sheepen and obviously going with this were fragments of a almost white copy of butt beaker f.113, and chips of vessels of T.R.3 & T.R.4...' <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. Roman Colchester II: Extramural and Walls. II. North Area.

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Record last edited

Dec 13 2016 1:54PM

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