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Colchester: From Bronze Age to Boudica

The Ancients

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What Happened to the Temple of Claudius?

I think there's another case of pompey, isn't there? Like in the first century, where you have these two teams and thiit comes to blows at the end. And we see that so viscerally in the archological record, like nowhere else. You put a spade in the grand and you will find iny a charcoal layer from the burning of colchester. By something tht would have been pretty cataclysmic for the people here. I mean, that's probably vastly inflated number, but lot,. i think it's fair to say, just descend on colchester and burn it to the ground.

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