Monument record MCC8371 - Colchester - Queen Street

Summary

Wheeler and Laver record a pavement or paved way W of Queen Street, opposite no.27 and refer to TEAS OS v.5 and the OS 1:500 map which do not tally.

Location

Grid reference TL 9992 2511 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Map

Type and Period (3)

Full Description

Wheeler and Laver record a pavement or paved way W of Queen Street, opposite no.27 and refer to TEAS OS v.5 and the OS 1:500 map which do not tally. The former is Wire's record of 1848 in which he notes a visit to the sewerage works, the purchase of samian and a paved way reported by workmen as 3ft below the surface near no.27 (which could be roughly in line with the late Roman street to the W), and higher up a floor of Roman bricks (Hull's site 48) which was broken up. The sewer trench was in the street, therefore these sites should be marked in the street and not W of it. The mark on the OS 1:500 map records a Roman tessellated pavement found behind a house W of Queen Street and just N of the Roman street found in the arcade. This is where Wheeler and Laver place their site 48 whilst site 47 representing the tile floor is put further N but still W of the street. Both 47 and 48 are now resited (?by Hull) and the OS pavement is given the number 47A. <1> - <4> RCHM note site 48 as Roman brick floor found September 1848 about half way up Queen Street and now destroyed, and site 47 as a pavement or paved way found in 1848 W of Queen Street opposite no.27. <5>

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <1> DESC TEXT: Hull, MR. 1958. Roman Colchester. p213.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. unknown. 1:500.
  • <3> DESC TEXT: Wire, W. 1848. Wire Diary. 9 Sept.
  • <4> DESC TEXT: Trans Essex Archaeological Soc. unknown. Trans Essex Archaeol Soc. OS, Vol 5, p157.
  • <5> DESC TEXT: RCHME. 1922. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex - Volume 3. Vol 3, p27.

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Record last edited

Nov 3 2015 11:41AM

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