2,000-year-old burial site found in Lexden (From Essex County Standard)
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2,000-year-old burial site found in Lexden
4:40pm Friday 8th February 2013 in News By Will Lodge
Colchester Archaelogical Trust have found an Iron Age burial site at Playgolf Colchester Don Shimmin & Chris Lister (right) from the Trust with Anthony Kirwan, Chris Clancy & Mark Easterbrook from the club and builder Phillip Hughes who found it.
AN IRON Age burial site dating back 2,000 years has been uncovered beneath a Lexden golf club.
The discovery was made during work at PlayGolf Colchester, in Bakers Lane, on a new £1 million clubhouse development.
Members of the Colchester Archaeological Trust have hailed the find - which dates back to circa 1-50 AD - as important because it could help develop the history of Colchester.
- Read more about the find and its significance in Friday's Gazette.
Comments(5)
Reginald47
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5:55pm Fri 8 Feb 13
Jess Jephcott
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10:43pm Fri 8 Feb 13
wellnow
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10:58am Sun 10 Feb 13
Justice79
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8:27pm Mon 11 Feb 13
wellnow wrote:I know and if this raises an interest in local history who knows future generations may even be able to spell the word daub correctly.
It is so heart warming to know that people were buried in 50ad.what expense will be needed to find that maybe they also lived wattle and dorb hutting.
Ontheball says...
5:34pm Fri 8 Feb 13