Colchester’s Town Wall is the earliest and one of the most complete town wall circuits surviving from Roman Britain, dated to c.AD 65-80. The Wall was constructed in a calcareous mudstone, septaria, imported from an outcrop near Harwich, supplemented b...

This Norman keep known as Colchester Castle was built around AD 1078 on the foundations of the Roman Temple of Claudius. It was built in at least two main phases and its initial form consisted of a single-storey stone keep with crenellated parapet wall...

The Balkerne Gate was the main (west) gate into the walled Roman town and one of six gates around the circuit of the Town Wall. The Gate incorporated an existing free-standing monumental arch (with two archways) built to celebrate the Claudian conquest...

World War Two had a huge impact on Colchester and its archaeology. Colchester sits on the line of one of three heavily defended anti-invasion defences in Essex, known as the Eastern Command Line. This 'stop line' was designed in response to the thre...

Undated cropmarks recorded by aerial photography, including ring ditches and field boundaries, to the west of Bonds Green Farm and north of Fen Farm.

To the west of the decoys are cropmarks of two very large ring ditches.

A total of 67 Roman burials and burial related features were recorded in Area C2 of the Garrison. These features consisted of 26 inhumation burials (including a lead coffin), 24 cremation burials, 11 urned cremation burials, five burial pits containing pyre debris, and a single boxed cremation burial. The inhumations were the earliest burials recorded on the site dating from the early-mid 2nd to the mid-late 3rd century. The cremations (cremation, urned and boxed) were the later burials dating from the mid-late 3rd to the 4th century. The burials on the site also appeared to be divided into two distinct concentrations, which would indicate the presence of two burial plots.

Large cropmark complex on the south bank of the river Stour.

Cropmarks centred on NGR: double-ditched trackway, very broad; about 12 ring ditches, at least two with double rings and one with diagonal parallel ditches bisecting it.

Group of five round barrows, A to E, within the floodplain (and on the east side) of the River Colne and at the confluence with Salary Brook.