UK Trip Day 13

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A walk through the Castle Museum, Colchester, and then a drive to a very old church.



A walk through the shopping centre.


Castle Museum. The castle was built in 1070(ish) on the foundations of a Roman temple to Mithras.







You can't dig a hole in Colchester without finding something. Many of the best items are in the museum.

Neolithic Flints


Bronze-age pottery and axes


Roman pottery




A Roman child's lead coffin


Floor mozaics








A glass cup illustrated with gladiators


Personal items and gaming pieces


A Roman domino


In the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle was a prison. Some of the cells have been restored.


Greensted Church, originally built between 850 and 1050AD, and extended in the mid 1500s. The bell tower was built in 1720.






Carved roof beams


Looking along the nave.