Showing posts with label Diorama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diorama. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Interesting Postcards



Colchester and Essex Museum
Conjectural reconstruction of the Temple of Claudius
c. A.D 50-60
Photo: Dennis Mansell

A childhood obsession of mine, I nearly had a heart attack when I visited Colchester Castle with my son last year and this model wasn't in the place it should have been. Happily, it had just been moved somewhere else. Not much of a story, I know, but it's all I've got on the subject.

The Temple of Claudius was razed to the ground along with the rest of Camulodunum circa AD 60 by a very angry Boudica and her Icenic Army. That's a much better story, I should have gone with that.