A recently-completed cemetery excavation close to Colchester’s Roman circus has revealed that some of Camulodunum‘s citizens marked their grave plots with ditches and wooden fences. It had previously been speculated that, during the Roman period, those unable to afford stone monuments might have used wooden markers or mounds of earth to distinguish individual burials. Now a four-month investigation by Colchester Archaeological Trust has unearthed clusters of inhumations dated by grave goods and other finds to the 2nd and 3rd century and surrounded in some cases by lines of small post-holes up to about 20cm in diameter. ‘This is certainly extremely