Source/Archive record SCC106 - CAR 9:Excavations of Roman and later cemeteries, churches and monastic sites in Colchester, 1971-8

Title CAR 9:Excavations of Roman and later cemeteries, churches and monastic sites in Colchester, 1971-8
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1993
International Standard Book Number 1 897719 01 9

Abstract/Summary

This report presents accounts of the excavations in Colchester between 1971 and 1988 which are related to cemeteries, churches and monastic institutions.

Description

Published by Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd. Copyright Colchester Archaeological Trust and English Heritage 1993. Printed by Witley Press, Hunstanton, Norfolk.

Location

Colchester Borough Council, Museums Service MRC library and record room

Referenced Monuments (56)

  • ?Roman burial at 38-40 Crouch Street, Colchester (Element)
  • Anglo-Saxon pottery from St John's Abbey, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Anglo-Saxon pottery from St John's Abbey, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Anglo-Saxon? spindle whorl, Butt Road, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Burial ground of Crouched Friars Friary, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Burial ground of Crouched Friars Friary, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Burial ground of Crouched Friars Friary, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Burial ground of Crouched Friars Friary, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Church of the Crouched or Crutched Friars, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Church of the Crouched or Crutched Friars, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Church of the Crouched or Crutched Friars, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Finds from St John's Abbey Precinct, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Finds from St John's Abbey Precinct, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Late Bronze Age Pit, Grounds of St John's Abbey, Colchester (Element)
  • Late Bronze Age Pit, Grounds of St John's Abbey, Colchester (Element)
  • Late Medieval cemetery, St John's Abbey precinct, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Roman building (CAT Building 140), Butt Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Roman church, Butt Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Roman church, Butt Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Medieval building (CAT Building 181), 42 Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
  • Medieval cemetery, St John's Abbey, Colchester (Monument)
  • Medieval ditch, St John's Church, Colchester (Element)
  • Medieval lime kiln, St Giles's Graveyard, Colchester (Monument)
  • Medieval oven, Butt Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Medieval wall, St John's Abbey, Colchester (Element)
  • Precinct wall of St John's Abbey, Colchester (Monument)
  • Precinct wall of St John's Abbey, Colchester (Monument)
  • Precinct wall of St John's Abbey, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman building (CAT Building 160), Maldon Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman burial group, Beaconsfield Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman cemetery, Beverley Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Cemetery, Butt Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman cemetery, Everett's Brickyard, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Christian Cemetery, Butt Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman cremation burial, Le Cateau Barracks, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman cremation burial?, 42 Crouch Street, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman cremation cemetery, Artillery Barracks, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman element group, Butt Road Roman Cemetery, Colchester (Element Group)
  • Roman inhumation burial, Area C2X, Garrison Urban Village, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman Inhumation burial?, 42 Crouch Street, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman inhumation cemetery, Maldon Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman inhumation cemetery, St John's Abbey Grounds, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman inhumation cemetery, Union Grounds (later St Mary's Hospital), Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman inhumation, Topfield, Rawstorn Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman inhumation, Topfield, Rawstorn Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman inhumation, Topfield, Rawstorn Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman inhumation, Topfield, Rawstorn Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman road at 38-40 Crouch Street, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman stone coffin, Burlington Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman timber-lined well, Butt Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman wall foundation, 38-40 Crouch Street, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman? Inhumation, 42 Crouch Street, Colchester (Element)
  • St Giles' Church, Colchester (Monument)
  • St Giles's Churchyard, Colchester (Monument)
  • St John's Church, Colchester (Monument)
  • Two cremations and one inhumation burial, 56 Creffield Road, Colchester (Element Group)

Referenced Events (21)

  • Burial Area, Beverley Road, Colchester, 1893 (Ref: ECC1133)
  • Burials observed at 38 Crouch Street, Colchester, 1895 (Ref: ECC2298)
  • Butt Road Excavations, Colchester, 1976-1979 (Ref: ECC432)
  • Construction of car park at St Giles' Church, Colchester, 1973 (Ref: ECC1132)
  • Cremations from Le Cateau Barracks extension, Colchester, 1903 (Ref: ECC2427)
  • Evaluation at Topfield, Rawstorn Road, Colchester, 2001 (Ref: ECC2791)
  • Excavation along Maldon Road, Colchester, 1971 (Ref: ECC381)
  • Excavation at 22 Crouch Street, Colchester, 1935 (Ref: ECC938)
  • Excavation at 42 Crouch Street, Colchester, 1988 (Ref: ECC380)
  • Excavation in St Giles Church, Colchester, 1975 (Ref: ECC392)
  • Excavations at St John's Abbey, Colchester, 1971 (Ref: ECC480)
  • Excavations at St John's Abbey, Colchester, 1972 (Ref: ECC389)
  • Excavations at St John's Abbey, Colchester, 1977 (Ref: ECC525)
  • Geophysical Survey of St Botolph's Roundabout, Colchester, 1973 (Ref: ECC2156)
  • Medieval and Roman burials, 42 Crouch Street, Colchester, 1928 (Ref: ECC1235)
  • Precinct Wall of St John's Abbey demolished, Colchester, 1972 (Ref: ECC1819)
  • Roman burials, Beaconsfield Avenue, Colchester, 1890 (Ref: ECC2311)
  • Roman cremations found Le Cateau Barracks, Colchester, 1903-5 (Ref: ECC2312)
  • Stone Coffin found at Burlington Road, Colchester, 1897 (Ref: ECC1304)
  • Watching brief and excavation at Topfield, Rawstorn Road, Colchester, 2006-7 (Ref: ECC2790)
  • Watching Brief on St John's Precinct, Colchester, 1972 (Ref: ECC1122)

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Jan 24 2017 3:01PM

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