Colchester Roman wall ruins of a four arch roman gate the Balkerne Gate ruins of the ancient roman gateway into roman Colchester Essex England UK GB

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Colchester is an historic market town in Essex, in the East of 20 May 2022, it was announced that, as part of the Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours, Colchester would receive city occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colchester therefore claims to be Britain's oldest recorded Gate is a Roman gateway in Colchester (the former Camulodunum). It is the largest surviving gateway in Roman Britain and was built where the Roman road from Londinium intersected the town wall of Camulodunum

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