Monument record MCC8058 - Prettygate Dyke, King Harold Road, Colchester

Summary

A contractor's trench in King Harold Road, just to the south of Ambrose Avenue, cut through the Prettygate Dyke in 1977.

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Grid reference TL 9705 2402 (point)
Map sheet TL92SE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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A contractor's trench in King Harold Road cut through the Prettygate Dyke. The profiles of two ditches were recorded by Dennis Gamble (Dept.of Eng. CBC). The ditches were about 2.5m deep, roughly V-shaped and about 19m apart.<2>

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  • <1> DESC TEXT: unknown. 1960 0nwards. SMR form unknown.
  • <2> Monograph: Crummy, Philip. 1992. CAR 6: Excavations at Culver Street, the Gilberd School, and other sites in Colchester 1971-85. 6. p.834.

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Nov 7 2016 10:44AM

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