Monument record MCC8012 - Colchester - St Helen's Lane

Summary

Two references in Wire's Diary.

Location

Grid reference TL 9968 2539 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

Two references in Wire's Diary. The first in 1855 notes a tessellated pavement reported by the gravedigger of Herricks Chapel burial ground, and which lay over `chips of gravel'. The second, 1856, notes the purchase of c.20 red bricks found in the burial ground attached to Stockwell Street Chapel (= Herricks Chapel) which constituted the ground work of a tessellated pavement of red tesserae in the following layers from the base foundation of bricks set edgeways, then c.1" broken granite, then concrete on top of which was set the pavement. The finder believed the pavement to continue under St Helen's Lane. <1> <2> Mosaic pavement laid on a foundation of bricks set edgeways with a foot layer of broken granite chips on it (?an earlier road or passage). It was found in No 1855 N of St Helen's Lane and probably under it, in the burial ground of the Independent Chapel (Herrick's) not far from Hull's site 25 (12466). <3> Other ref. <4>

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1> DESC TEXT: Hull, MR. 1958. Roman Colchester. p104.
  • <2> DESC TEXT: Wire, W. unknown. Wire Diary. 23 Nov 1855, 14 Feb 1856.
  • <3> DESC TEXT: RCHME. 1922. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex - Volume 3. Vol 3, p23.
  • <4> DESC TEXT: Trans Essex Archaeological Soc. unknown. Trans Essex Archaeol Soc. OS, Vol 5, p156.

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Nov 3 2015 11:41AM

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