Source/Archive record SCC110 - CAR 11: Camulodunum II

Title CAR 11: Camulodunum II
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1995

Abstract/Summary

This report contains descriptions of all the Colchester dykes, as well as accounts of fieldwork relating to the dyke system and Camulodunum in general in the late Iron Age and early Roman periods. Sixty years of excavation are covered beginning in the 1932. This is the same source record as SEX36170 (issued by ECC SMR).

Description

Published in 1995 by the Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, 12 Lexden Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 3NF. Copyright Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd and English Heritage.

Location

Colchester Borough Council, Museums Service MRC, Library and records room

Referenced Monuments (117)

  • ?Roman Triple Dyke, Colchester County High School for Girls, Colchester (Monument)
  • Barnhall Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Berechurch Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Berechurch Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Berechurch Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Berechurch Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Bluebottle Grove Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Bluebottle Grove Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Bluebottle Grove Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Colchester-Dugard Avenue, Colchester (Monument)
  • Cultivation marks? Gosbecks Farm, Stanway (Monument)
  • Earthworks at Abberton Hall, Abberton (Monument)
  • Element Group, Kiln Road, Sheepen, Colchester (Element Group)
  • Enclosure complex north of the Colne (Monument)
  • Enclosure complex north of the Colne (Monument)
  • Enclosure, West House Farm (Monument)
  • Field System, south of Colchester (Monument)
  • Fields north of Dugard Avenue, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke North, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke North, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke North, east of Stanway Green, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Gryme's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Dyke Middle and Kidman's Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle and Kidman's Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke Middle, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke North, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke North, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke North, Colchester (Monument)
  • Heath Farm Dyke South, Stanway (Monument)
  • Hyderabad Sector, Berechurch Dyke, former Meeanee & Hyderabad Barracks (Site J), Colchester (Element)
  • Iron Age and Roman pottery from excavations at Lexden Dyke, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Junction of Berechurch Dyke and Barnhall Dyke, Colchester Cemetery, Colchester (Monument)
  • Kidman's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Kidman's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Kidman's Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Bronze Age pottery and Iron Age coin flan moulds at Kiln Road, Sheepen, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Late Iron Aage-Roman rubbish pit, 'The Lindens', Lexden Road, Colchester (Element Group)
  • Late Iron Age Camulodunum, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Iron Age cremation cemetery, St Clare Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Iron Age defended settlement or oppidum at Sheepen, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Iron Age Mint, Sheepen, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Iron Age trapezoidal enclosure, Gosbecks, Stanway (Monument)
  • Late Iron Age/Early Roman cremation burial, St Clare Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Late Iron Age-Claudian Pottery, 'The Lindens', Lexden Road, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Late Iron Age-Roman ditch, The Lindens, 139 Lexden Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Lexden Dyke Middle (Lexden Park), Colchester (Monument)
  • Lexden Dyke South, Colchester (Monument)
  • Lexden Tumulus, Colchester (Monument)
  • Moat Farm Dyke (Lexden Dyke), Colchester (Monument)
  • Oliver's Dyke, Stanway (Monument)
  • 'Palisaded earthwork', Oaklands Avenue, Colchester (Monument)
  • Peartree Junction, Colchester (Monument)
  • Precinct of the Roman Temple of Claudius, Colchester (Monument)
  • Prettygate Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Prettygate Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Prettygate Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Rectilinear Track way, (Monument)
  • Road along slighted Prettygate Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman ?beacon, east end of Dugard Avenue, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman burial, north of the Lexden Tumulus, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman cremation burial, St Clare Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman ditch, the Altnacealgach site, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman ditch, the Altnacealgach site, Colchester (Element)
  • Roman element Group, near Altnacealgach House (County High School for Girls), Colchester (Element Group)
  • Roman fort, Gosbecks, Stanway (Monument)
  • Roman Road between London and Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Road between London and Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Road between London and Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Road from Gosbecks to Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Road from Gosbecks to Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman road, 149 Straight Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman road, Colchester Royal Grammar School, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman theatre, Gosbecks, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman wall, near Altnacealgach House (County High School for Girls), Colchester (Element)
  • Roman? burial, St Clare Road, Colchester (Element)
  • Romano-Celtic Temple Complex, Gosbecks, Colchester (Monument)
  • Section across Berechurch Dyke, Charlotte's Grove, Colchester (Monument)
  • Section across Berechurch Dyke, near Berechurch Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Section across Layer Dyke, Layer-de-la-Haye (Monument)
  • Section across Layer Dyke, Layer-de-la-Haye (Monument)
  • Section across Layer Dyke, Layer-de-la-Haye (Monument)
  • Section across Roman road, Gosbecks Farm, Colchester (Monument)
  • Section across Roman Road, Gosbecks, Colchester (Monument)
  • Section across Shrub End Dyke, Morman Church, Straight Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Section across Shrub End Dyke, the former Royal Eastern Counties Hospital, Straight Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Sections across Barnhall Dyke, north of Old Heath, Colchester (Monument)
  • Sheepen Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Shrub End Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Temenos enclosing Gosbecks Romano-Celtic temple complex, Colchester (Monument)
  • The 'Laver ditch', Colchester (Monument)
  • The 'Laver ditch', Colchester (Monument)
  • The 'Laver ditch', Colchester (Monument)
  • The 'Laver ditch', Park Drive, Colchester (Monument)
  • The Rampers, Horkesley Heath, Great Horkesley (Monument)
  • Track way, south of Colne & Lexden Lodge (Moat) Farm (Monument)
  • Track way, south of Colne & Lexden Lodge (Moat) Farm (Monument)
  • Track way, south of Colne & Lexden Lodge (Moat) Farm (Monument)
  • Track way, south of Colne & Lexden Lodge (Moat) Farm (Monument)
  • Triple Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Triple Dyke, Colchester (Monument)
  • Triple Dyke, north of Lexden Road (Monument)
  • Undated enclosure complex north of the River Colne, Colchester (Monument)
  • Undated enclosure complex north of the River Colne, Colchester (Monument)

Referenced Events (34)

  • Auguring of Barnhall Dyke, Colchester Cemetery, 1960 (Ref: ECC418)
  • Burials at Lexden Tumulus, Colchester, 1973 (Ref: ECC1185)
  • CAT synthesis of AP evidence for Colchester, 1995 (Ref: ECC2137)
  • Ditches outside 'The Lindens', Lexden Road, Colchester, 1946 (Ref: ECC1562)
  • Enclosure on the north bank of the Colne, Colchester, 1952 (Ref: ECC1994)
  • Evaluation at 19 Beverley Road, Colchester, 2003 (Ref: ECC2645)
  • Excavation at Bluebottle Grove, Colchester, 1987 (Ref: ECC986)
  • Excavation at 'Peartree Junction', Colchester, 1936 (Ref: ECC839)
  • Excavation at Prettygate Junction, Gainsborough Road, Colchester, 1956-58 (Ref: ECC969)
  • Excavation in field 1302 by A.F. Hall, Colchester, 1936 (Ref: ECC831)
  • Excavation of Barnhall Rampart, Colchester, 1945 (Ref: ECC2321)
  • Excavation of Enclosure at West House Farm, Colchester, 1952 (Ref: ECC2439)
  • Excavations at 12 Lexden Road and Colchester Royal Grammar School, Colchester, 1950's (Ref: ECC2130)
  • Excavations at Lexden Dyke Middle, Colchester, 1932 (Ref: ECC2316)
  • Excavations near Altnacealgach House, Colchester, 1956 (Ref: ECC970)
  • Gryme's Dyke excavation, 1977 (Ref: ECC3257)
  • Iron Age burial, St Clare Road, Colchester (Ref: ECC2407)
  • Iron Age burial, St Clare Road, Colchester, 1912 (Ref: ECC2406)
  • Kiln Road 1971 Magnetometer Survey, Kiln Road, Colchester, 1971 (Ref: ECC1818)
  • Kiln Road Excavation, Sheepen, Colchester, 1971 (Ref: ECC406)
  • Late Iron Age / Early Roman Cremation, St Clare Road, Colchester, 1954 (Ref: ECC2420)
  • Lexden Tumulus Excavation, Fitzwalter Road, Colchester, 1973 (Ref: ECC407)
  • Oaklands Avenue Excavation, Colchester, 1975 (Ref: ECC404)
  • Observation of Berechurch Dyke in Colchester Cemetery, Colchester, 1947 (Ref: ECC2320)
  • Roman burials, St Clare Road, Colchester, 1917 (Ref: ECC2409)
  • Roman cremation, St Clare Road, Colchester, 1922 (Ref: ECC2408)
  • Roman pottery from 20 St Clare Road, Colchester, 1916 (Ref: ECC1557)
  • SALV RECORD by B. Blake (Ref: ECC3298)
  • Supposed site of Roman military beacon, Colchester, 1722 (Ref: ECC2362)
  • Tank trap dug along Bluebottle Grove, Colchester, 1940 (Ref: ECC2329)
  • Three sections across Layer Dyke, Layer-de-la-Haye, 1961 (Ref: ECC3309)
  • Triple Dyke at County High School for Girls, Colchester, 1955 (Ref: ECC714)
  • Watching Brief at Sheepen, Colchester, 1972-3 (Ref: ECC1126)
  • Watching Brief at the Lexden Tumulus, Colchester, 1973 (Ref: ECC1151)

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Sep 11 2019 9:05AM

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