TY - BOOK ID - 78044759 TI - Colchester : fortress of the war god : an archaeological assessment AU - Gascoyne, Adrian AU - Radford, David AU - Wise, Philip J. PY - 2013 SN - 1782970770 1782970754 9781782970750 9781782970774 9781842175088 1842175084 PB - Oxford : Oxbow Books, DB - UniCat KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Regions & Countries - Europe KW - History & Archaeology KW - Great Britain KW - Archaeological digs KW - Archaeological excavations KW - Digs (Archaeology) KW - Excavation sites (Archaeology) KW - Ruins KW - Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) KW - Archaeology KW - Fouilles (Archéologie) KW - Colchester (England) KW - Colchester (Angleterre) KW - Antiquities KW - Antiquités KW - Antiquities. KW - Colchester, Eng. KW - Colchester (Essex) KW - Camulodunum (England) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78044759 AB - This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site. The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initial ER -