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06/07/12 - Olympic Torch Visit Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/5/2012
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This cache is to celebrate the Olympic Torch visiting Colchester on July 6th 2012.

During 2004 building developments on Abbey Field, Colchester Barracks unearthed the remains of a huge Roman Chariot Racing Arena. The arena is estimated to have been built at sometime after 100AD when Roman rule had been returned to Colchester following the Boudican Revolt. It may have seated up to 10,000 people and at up to 5 metres high, 400 metres long and 69 metres wide is the largest known Roman building ever to have been unearthed in Britain and the first Roman Circus to be discovered.

Also over the road from the Roman Circus is an athletics track, so it's a fitting place to commemorate this historic sporting occasion.


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