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Colchester: From Bronze Age to Boudica

The Ancients

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Colchester - A Turning Point in the History of Britain?

The romans definitely had a great ambition for colchester. And then it seems to shift more to london, of course. But i think politically, because of canoblian and different reasons, i think the romans kind have gravitated to that. Anyway, although that's not to say they suddenly stopped investing in colchester at all. The theatre at gosbeck a sa wa stillher was built a second century. So they're still investing in a big way in colchester.And it rises. It probably grew to potentially as much as 30 thousand by the third century. And of course, only get some of the problems in the third and fourth centuryand then a couple

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