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• Leicestershire and Rutland’s finest archaeological finds to be showcased at Â鶹ÊÓƵ conference

  Date: 1 Nov 2023

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ Archaeological Services (ULAS) will showcase some of its most internationally significant finds from Leicestershire and...

• Six Leverhulme Early Career Fellows to join Â鶹ÊÓƵ to conduct groundbreaking research

  Date: 4 Jul 2023

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  Six academics will join the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the 2023/24 academic year after being awarded Early Career Fellowships from the Leverhulme...

• Earliest evidence of wine consumption in the Americas found in Caribbean

  Date: 25 May 2023

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  Earliest evidence of wine drinking in the Americas found in Caribbean pottery vessels by team involving the Â鶹ÊÓƵ

• Academics pipe up with a new interpretation of history

  Date: 28 Apr 2023

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  The historic misuse of the humble smoker’s pipe has led to two Â鶹ÊÓƵ academics’ realisation that we might be missing a trick...

• Archaeology professor’s book inspired by the tragic loss of her husband

  Date: 12 Apr 2023

  /news/2023/april/tarlow

  An expert in death, Archaeology Professor Sarah Tarlow, found nothing could prepare her for the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband.

• 1,800 year-old evidence of Roman worship found in Leicester Cathedral dig

  Date: 6 Mar 2023

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ Archaeological Services uncover evidence of a cellar and altar stone from the Roman period thought to be a private shrine...

• Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon

  Date: 27 Jan 2023

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County...

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ archaeologists identify ancient Stonehenge gold digging kit

  Date: 16 Dec 2022

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ archaeologists have identified a 4000-year-old gold working tool kit amongst the grave goods from an important Bronze Age...

• Before Highcross: Vote now for research teams that solved Leicester’s shopping centre history mysteries

  Date: 12 Dec 2022

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  Archaeologists who examined the ground beneath Leicester’s shopping mall district are up for a research award – and they need your vote.

• Rutland Roman villa: how we found one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK

  Date: 7 Dec 2022

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  The discovery of a previously unknown Roman villa in rural Rutland during the 2020 lockdown was one of the archaeological stories of the year.