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Colchester: From Bronze Age to Boudica

The Ancients

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The Earliest Church in Britain

It's not huge, is it? I me is what? I 30 centimeters tall. Little bit damaged. But actually, when you really look at how exquisite its face is, the quality is just astonishing and under cou the little wings. And again, it's ways this context is, i say, in gospeck, but it's found in a field atulyong. The story of that is quite interesting. A few reasons to think it may well have been a mithraum originally, but then converted into a church. Its association with a very large christian cemetery is part of that, i think. It probably is amongst, if not the earliest christian church

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