Colchester: Ambitious plans for the Roman Circus (From Essex County Standard)
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Colchester: Ambitious plans for the Roman Circus
9:00am Friday 15th January 2010 in News By Wendy Brading
Vision: How the circus could look.
This is a vision of how Colchester's Roman circus site could look.
The artist's impression shows how the footprint could be marked out to show the whole of the circus site.
And some of the buried remains of the starting and entrances gates could be permanently exposed under a cover.
The Roman circus was discovered in 2004 - but there is nothing to show its location.
However, years of work by Colchester Archaeological Trust and Colchester Council curator Philip Wise have culminated with a masterplan which would allow the circus to be identified.
See more in this week's Essex County Standard.
