Monument record MCC813 - Roman street between Insula 38b & Town Wall, Queen Street, Colchester

Summary

Roman east-west street (south of Insula 38b), recorded in 1966.

Location

Grid reference TL 99965 25057 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

East-West? Roman Street from Colonia. Running south of Insula 38. This could be the same as MCC1770, which is a north-south street to the north.

In July 1966 a small excavation was made by the Bus company in the north side of the roofed part of their garage in Queen Street. 30ft along the north wall of the garage from the north-east corner, a trench was dug at an angle to the wall and measuring 30ft north south and 5ft wide. A masonry wall ran south from the north end of the trench for 11ft and then turned east and ran across the trench and into the east section. Within the angle so formed was the make-up for a clay floor which contained a Trajanic mortarium rim south of the east west wall was a narrow strip about 6" wide of clay with traces of tips of ash on its surface and beyond this was a gravel layer with traces of a depression on the northern edge of what appeared to be an east-west cambered road. (This was later seen again in Queen Street in 1968 when a telephone cable trench sliced through it).<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> DESC TEXT: Dunnett, B. Rosalind. K.. 1971. Inventory of Roman Colchester (unpublished MA thesis). Insula 39, No 3.

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Record last edited

Jan 23 2017 10:15AM

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