Posted by John Barton on October 27, 2004 at 03:27:43 from 203.97.116.21 user Nostalgic.
In Reply to: Re: Mersea natives posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 26, 2004 at 22:03:52:
Think I remember that dig, Andrew. Wasn't it between CRGS Harsnett House and the new dining hut, on 4th April 1943? Lots of bones, some Samian earthenware fragments, and not much else. If I've got the right school. At the time Geoff Martin wrote the school history, and George Young taught me Shakespeare; both still there. But they found a fine votive tablet on the Lexden playing fields. The big trial for piracy over oysters took place around then, the last trial for piracy in England. Algar Musset and Zebedee Milgate and George Stoker used to be on the Mersea Coast Road with oyster dredges and big oyster forks in all weathers; they didn't think much of cyclists, and were liable to spit out the tobacco they chewed without looking behind, as I cycled to school at The Nothe. They were all in the punch-up, but it was at Mersea Naas, over culch; not at the Naze.