WIND turbines could be used to mark the site of Colchester’s ancient Roman chariot circus.

The circus, which dates back to the 200AD, is the only chariot racing circuit to be unearthed in Britain.

Nearly five years after archaeologists found it during building work on the old garrison site, there is still nothing above ground to show where it was.

Colchester Archeological Trust has suggested putting up a row of wind turbines around the edges of the track to an impression of how the 20-foot-tall stadium would have looked.

Jeremy Lucas, Essex county councillor responsible for heritage, culture and the arts, said: “Each turbine would generate enough energy for as many as five homes.

“The addition of these markers would therefore, be both sustainable and, over a period, self-financing.

“And if, as many of us hope, the bid to move the trust to the former sergeants’ mess building on the site is successful, the energy could perhaps be supplied by the turbines.”