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Civil war execution obelisk, Colchester castle is a castle, fort or tower in Colchester, England. Perhaps soldiers marched past its shadow while waiting for orders that would end lives before dawn. Maybe the stone still holds the heat of those final hours, warming hands that touch it without knowing why.

A named place photographed at this map point in Colchester.

Colchester Castle was originally built in the early 12th century by the Normans, with the current structure largely dating from the 12th and 13th centuries. It is important as a historic fortress and prison, and the "Civil War execution obelisk" refers to a memorial within the castle grounds marking the site where Royalist prisoners were executed during the English Civil War in 1648.