A sharp eyed teenager identifies his find
Some members of Colchester Young Archaeologists' club bring fossils and artefacts they have found to show us when we meet. Our December meeting was no exception. A 15-year-old brought in more fragments he had picked up for us to identify and to show other members of the club. He was particularly keen to match a fragment of an amphora with one of the exhibits in Roman Circus House. As it was our last meeting for the year and a festive one, we decorated cards, filled out quiz sheets and played games. One of these, "Will the Barrow Survive", is a game devised by Mike Corbishly who started Colchester Young Archaeologists' Club in the 1970s, one of the first clubs in the country. We found the game printed in an edition of the "Colchester Archaeologist". We enlarged it and adapted it to be played. It is a difficult game to win, as points are lost when barrows are damaged by various forms of human activity, including erosion, ploughing, infrastructu...