Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1014: summary

Archaeological monitoring and recording at 5-6 St Nicholas Street and 60 Culver Street East, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1DW: August 2016
by Laura Pooley (with contributions from -)

Date report completed: September 2016
Location: 5-6 St Nicholas Street and 60 Culver Street East, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1DW
Map reference(s): TL 99818 25176 (c)
File size: 1,706 kb
Project type: Archaeological monitoring and recording
Significance of the results: negative
Keywords: -

Summary. Archaeological monitoring and recording was carried out at 5-6 St Nicholas Street and 60 Culver Street East (the former Jacks Store), Colchester in advance of the creation of a café space at ground- floor level with seven one-bedroom residential units. Two very small test-holes were excavated by the contractors under archaeological supervision. The trial-hole was excavated through 1.1m of modern and post-medieval layers. The borehole was excavated through 320mm of modern layers but none of the subsequent layers but could be accurately dated; natural was recorded at 3.2m below current ground-level. Medieval pottery from the borehole would suggest that some of the layers are of a medieval date but we cannot be certain which one(s).