Hallaton Field Work Group

Leicester Cathedral Revealed – The story is in the stratigraphic sequence
Saying it’s been a wet winter is an understatement! It’s been terrible for archaeological excavations, with flooded sites, high water tables and mud, glorious mud! For Leicester Cathedral Uncovered, this has been a bit of a blessing, with staff, rained off other projects, devoting a considerable amount of their winter cleaning the skeletons from the... […]
Stepping out of the Dark: Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Eye Kettleby
In the mid-1990s, one of the largest known early Anglo-Saxon settlements in the country was excavated by University of Leicester Archaeological Services at Eye Kettleby in Leicestershire. Now the results of the work have been published in a new book titled The Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire. The book forms the latest addition to... […]
Eye Kettleby: The development of a prehistoric landscape
One of ULAS’s first major excavations was a large multi-period site at Eye Kettleby near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. A new book detailing the important Anglo-Saxon discoveries is soon to be released. To celebrate this, Dr Gavin Speed, Project Manager at ULAS, looks back at the equally significant prehistoric discoveries from the site. Mesolithic and... […]