by BAJR | Dec 1, 2023 | Featured, General News, News
The priory of St Anne (also known as the Coventry Charterhouse) is a rare example of a Carthusian monastery, one of only nine ever established in England. Founded in 1381, construction works began with King Richard II and his queen, Anne of Bohemia, laying the...
by BAJR | Jul 21, 2020 | General News
Recently, University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) had a couple of enquires about the link between King Leir and the Jewry Wall in Leicester – and so ULAS Project Officer Mathew Morris investigated… One of Leicester’s most enduring legends is that...
by BAJR | Jun 11, 2020 | General News
Over the last five years, ULAS has been busy investigating Leicester’s waterside, a large area of the historic city centre stretching 400m along the east bank of the River Soar and the Grand Union Canal from Bath Lane to Frog Island. A once busy area, characterised by...
by BAJR | Oct 8, 2025 | General News
If you’ve been in Leicester’s city centre recently, you will have noticed the newly installed bollards. When Leicester City Council set out to install the bollards, they weren’t just reshaping traffic flow—they were opening a window into the city’s ancient past. In...
by BAJR | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, General News
[ccfic] A new film produced by the University of Leicester showcases how archaeologists successfully lifted and conserved a Roman mosaic found in Leicester. During the winter of 2016/17, archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services...
