Colchester Archaeological Trust director Philip Crummy with BBC presenter Neil Oliver.
BBC presenter and archaeologist Neil Oliver has been given an exclusive view of Colchester’s famous Roman chariot circus.
Mr Oliver, who leads a team of experts on the popular BBC series Coast, was in Colchester yesterday filming for a new series for BBC 2 called The History of Ancient Britain.
As part of the programme on Roman Britain, Mr Oliver visited Colchester - Britain’s oldest recorded town and first Roman captial.
He met Philip Crummy, director of Colchester Archaeological Trust, and they dug a hole in Napier Road, Colchester, to allow Mr Oliver to see part of the site of Britain’s only chariot circus.
For more on this story, see this week's Essex County Standard.
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