Colchester is a town, and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester, in Essex, England, United Kingdom, 56 northwest of London.
It has a population of 104,390. As the oldest recorded Roman town, Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain. It also claims to have the United Kingdom's oldest recorded market.
Colchester has also been suggested as one of the potential sites of Camelot, on account of having been the capital of Roman Britain and its ancient name of Camulodunum: this is not considered likely by academics, as in Arthurian times Colchester was under Saxon control.
Colchester in "A Massachusetts Yankee in King Arthur's Court"[]
Colchester was the site of an archaeological dig in 1963. An American dime had been found with otherwise undisturbed post-Roman artifacts.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan held a summit with US President John F. Kennedy, and casually mentioned the dime. Macmillan did not know that Kennedy had been magically transported to the historical Cam'lod'n overnight. While Kennedy had initially believed his trip to be a dream, Macmillan's revelation of the dime confirmed for Kennedy that he had not been dreaming.
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