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Monument Number 1065155
Hob Uid: 1065155
Location : Essex Colchester Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : TL9940024400
Summary : Site of an Iron Age/Romano-British mixed cemetery, the pottery spans the Iron Age and the whole Roman period.
More information : An extensive cemetery in the Abbey Field (TL 9924) found when the barracks were built commencing in 1872. Many graves and hundreds of pottery vessels were cut thorugh by drains and foundation trenches. They were concentrated in the area of Le Cateau Barracks (TL 993245) and the football fiels (TL 995244) but extending south to Sobraon Barracks (TL 993237). Cremations and inhumations were found, some in lead coffins, and the pottery from the burials, in Colchester Museum, represent the whole Roman period and include some of the Iron Age. Excavations in 1971 in St John's Abbey (at TL 998248) recognised the underlying cemetery. (1-3)

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Page(s) : 255-6
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Vol(s) : no.20 - 1958

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Vol(s) : 1963

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Page(s) : 79
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Vol(s) : 1972

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Iron Age
Display Date : Iron Age
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Cemetery
Evidence : Find

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date :
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Inhumation Cemetery, Inhumation, Cremation, Coffin, Cremation Cemetery, Mixed Cemetery
Evidence : Find

Components and Objects:

Period : Iron Age
Component Monument Type : Cemetery
Object Type : VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

Period : Roman
Component Monument Type : Inhumation Cemetery, Inhumation, Cremation, Coffin, Cremation Cemetery, Mixed Cemetery
Object Type : VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery, Lead

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TL 92 SE 93
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1920-01-01
End Date : 1929-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1925-01-01
End Date : 1925-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1971-01-01
End Date : 1972-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1065155