Monument record MCC782 - Roman building of the pre-Boudican Colonia (CAT Building 87), Culver Street, Colchester

Summary

Roman timber-framed building of the pre-Boudican Colonia (CAT Building 87) recorded during excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5.

Location

Grid reference TL 99542 25118 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
1848 Parish THE HOLY TRINITY
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

During excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5 (ECC337), the remains of a timber-framed building belonging to the period between the foundation of the colonia and the Boudican revolt were examined.

Interpretation of the remains was difficult and was compounded by the fact that some of the ground-plates had been removed during clear-up operations after the Boudican destruction. The building was situated over the site of an earlier military building (MCC775), on the north side of an east-west street (MON520) belonging to the new colonial street grid and adjacent to another building of the same date (MCC780).

Little of the structure could be excavated but the floor was of daub and the wall was supported on a single timber ground-plate the charred remains of which survived in situ. The wall between the building and the adjacent structure to the west (MCC780) was probably of the 'daub-block type'. Although interpreted as a party wall, it could equally well have been part of an internal partition in the same building so that MCC780 and MCC782 may in fact have been the same building. The footway to the south of the building (MCC789) appears to have been built at the same time and may have been an integral part of it. The building was destroyed during the Boudican revolt but the Boudican destruction debris was very thin and in some places absent.<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Monograph: Crummy, Philip. 1992. CAR 6: Excavations at Culver Street, the Gilberd School, and other sites in Colchester 1971-85. 6. p.57.

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Record last edited

Jan 22 2017 12:25PM

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