University of Leicester, School of Archaeology & Ancient History Outreach

12/07/2018

Free exhibition showcasing Leicester’s Roman past will take place at BBC Radio Leicester studio between 16 – 27 July University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) in partnership with BBC R…

04/07/2018

03/07/2018

03/07/2018

03/07/2018

Week 7, Day 1: in our final week we are just trying to answer a few final questions and complete our recording before we close down the site. One of our hopes is to find dating evidence in the construction cut of the wall of our building.

02/07/2018

In the late Neolithic period, around the time that the Stonehenge sarsens were raised about 4,500 years ago, Durrington Walls, which lies around 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge, played host to vast feasts. But where did all the people who gathered here come from, and how do we know?

28/06/2018

Week 6, Day 3: we had one of the finds of the season today, a fragment of tankard bearing the stamp of King William III, and manufactured 1699-1702. We our trying to establish if our building was constructed for a royal visit in 1696, and this strongly supports the idea that it was either built (or perhaps more likely extended) for the visitation

27/06/2018

Walk like an Egyptian, but eat like an ancient Babylonian. While cookbooks containing Mesopotamian fare do exist, to be really authentic, take your recipes from a clay tablet, densely inscribed in cuneiform. Sadly, there are only four of them, and they reside in a display case at Yale.