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Important digs in Leicester

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1930s: Jewry Wall. Excavations by archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon. One of the two largest upstanding pieces of Roman public architecture in the country.

1973 to 1978: Austin Friars excavations. Waterlogged preservation of medieval artefacts found just west of the Soar.

1979: Norfolk Street Roman villa. A nationally important preservation of Roman wall plaster from the villa buildings.

1993: Bonners Lane, near Leicester Royal Infirmary. The first excavation to highlight the potential for archaeology in the south suburb – complete sequence of activity from Roman through to the Civil War, first evidence for Anglo-Saxon occupation from Leicester.

2000 to 2009: Leicester Abbey, Abbey Park. Early excavations in the 30s produced the abbey and church outline laid out in the city centre park. Later excavations produced a wealth of new evidence detailing kitchens, a guest house, an infirmary and a gate house.

2001: Humberstone. On the site of the Gateway College campus – near Humberstone Heights golf course. The largest Iron Age settlement in Leicestershire, and largest collection of Iron Age pottery and animal bone in the East Midlands.

2004: Highcross, former St Margaret's Baths. Discovery of the lost church of St Peters and one of the largest medieval parish cemeteries outside London.

2005: Highcross, Vine Street. One of the largest Roman townhouses excavated for the past 25 years, Roman curse tablets found.

2005: Highcross, Freeschool Lane. The only known section of a collapsed wall of a Roman public building from a town in the country. Evidence of a medieval brewery also found.

2009: Bath Lane, the former Merlin Works factory. Evidence of Iron Age coin minting, large Roman public building and medieval tanning.

2012: Greyfriars, New Street. The discovery of Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, found in a city council car park.

Important digs in Leicester


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