Ebook: Excavations at Lion Walk, Balkerne Lane, and Middleborough, Colchester, Essex

With contributions from Howard Brooks, P. M. Barford, J. Bayley, C. M. Cunningham, Nina Crummy, P. J. Drury, A. J. Gouldwell, K. F. Hartley, S. Limbrey, Roger Ling, Joan Liversidge, R. Luff, P. M. Murphy, David S. Neal, R. Reece, D. J. Smith, R. P. Symonds, Maisie Taylor, and J. P. Wild.

This report is intended to be only a description of the structures and other substantial remains found during the major excavations in Colchester between 1971 and 1978 at Lion Walk, Balkerne Lane, and Middleborough. The finds selected for inclusion here are those which were part of structures (eg wall plaster and building tile) or which had impinged on the site in some way (eg as a votive pot or a gridiron 'in situ'). With the exception of coins, Roman objects which were 'loose', eg brooches and querns, are dealt within CAR 2; the remaining finds will be included in subsequent volumes of the series. The dates given in the report below are based on the coins and preliminary examinations of the pottery. Hence refinement and reassessment of some of the dating evidence is almost inevitable when the study and classification of the pottery is completed. Any changes will be set out in the pottery report together with a comprehensive statement of the dating evidence for all three sites. It is unfortunate that the structural reports have had to be prepared without the benefit of the definitive pottery study but the size of the task in hand and the very limited budget available for the post-excavation work in general leave a choice between publication in the present form in 1984 or publication in a more comprehensive fashion probably in the 1990s.