Source/Archive record SCC254 - Ordnance Survey Cards

Title Ordnance Survey Cards
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1876

Abstract/Summary

Index cards recording information about archaeological sites surveyed by the OS

Description

Copies of the OS cards for the Borough are held in a card in index in the MRC

Location

Colchester Borough Council, Museums Service Museum Resource Centre, Records Room

Referenced Monuments (18)

  • Bronze Age palstave, Glen Avenue, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Bronze Age Palstave, Maldon Road, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Bronze Age spearhead, Prettygate, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Holy Trinity Church, Colchester (Monument)
  • Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age axe, East Bay, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Late Neolithic / Bronze Age beaker, Flagstaff Road, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Neolithic axe, East Street, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Neolithic stone axe, Hillyfields, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Palaeolithic flint hand axe, North of Lexden Park, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Palaeolithic implement, Lexden Park, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Prehistoric worked flint, East Street, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Prehistoric worked flints, Colchester Cemetery, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Ring ditch, Recreation Field, Colchester (Monument)
  • Roman Altar, Balkerne Hill, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Roman stone sphinx, Essex County Hospital, Lexden Road, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • St Anne's Holy Well, Harwich Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • St Helen's Chapel, Maidenburgh Street, Colchester (Building)
  • Undated bone lance head, East Hill, Colchester (Find Spot)

Referenced Events (25)

  • Altar found at Balkerne Hill, Colchester, 1881 (Ref: ECC1290)
  • Bone lance, East Hill, Colchester, 1926 (Ref: ECC1438)
  • Bronze Age palstave, Glen Avenue, Colchester, 1937 (Ref: ECC1430)
  • Bronze Age Palstave, Maldon Road, Colchester, 1947 (Ref: ECC2363)
  • Bronze bust found near railway, Colchester, 1845 (Ref: ECC1335)
  • Bronze spearhead, Prettygate, Colchester, 1934 (Ref: ECC1435)
  • Cropmarks recorded south of Harwich Road, Colchester (Ref: ECC2344)
  • Cropmarks south of Harwich Road, Colchester, 1938 (Ref: ECC2260)
  • Cropmarks south of Harwich Road, Colchester, 1938 (Ref: ECC2260)
  • 'Holly Well', 39 Harwich Road, Colchester, 1950 (Ref: ECC1441)
  • Human remains found near East Bridge, Colchester, 1863 (Ref: ECC2348)
  • Neolithic axe findspot, Colchester, 1977 (Ref: ECC1796)
  • Neolithic axehead from Pondfield Farm, Harwich Road, Colchester, 1977 (Ref: ECC1776)
  • Neolithic stone axe from Hillyfields, Colchester, 1969 (Ref: ECC1789)
  • Palaeolithic flint, Lexden Park, Colchester, 1897 (Ref: ECC2349)
  • Palaeolithic hand Axe, Lexden Road, Colchester (Ref: ECC2356)
  • Polished Axe, East Bay, Colchester, 1914 (Ref: ECC1384)
  • Possible cropmark of Roman Villa, Colchester, 1950 (Ref: ECC2343)
  • Ring Ditch, Recreation Ground, Colchester, 1974 (Ref: ECC2345)
  • Roman bronze figures, Colchester, 1845 (Ref: ECC2346)
  • Sphinx and other finds from Essex County Hospital Site, Colchester, 1821 (Ref: ECC1237)
  • Stake circles & human bone, near River at East Bridge, Colchester, 1973 (Ref: ECC1797)
  • Supposed site of Roman military beacon, Colchester, 1722 (Ref: ECC2362)
  • Worked flint, Colchester Cemetery, Colchester, 1921 (Ref: ECC2319)
  • Worked flints, East Street, Colchester, 1933 (Ref: ECC1439)

Record last edited

Jul 5 2007 4:39PM

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