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Outreach: Our Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Archaeology & Ancient History at Leicester

Welcome to our webpages! The School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester comprises a thriving and world-class team of scholars engaged in cutting-edge research and delivering teaching to the highest standards.

Internationally recognised, the School has established strengths in prehistoric, Graeco-Roman, historical and scientific archaeology, as well as in ancient historical analyses of the cultures, economies and politics of the classical world.

The School of Archaeology and Ancient History offers:

top student satisfaction in the National Student Survey
highest ranking for our research nationally and internationally
a unique blend of archaeology and ancient history
excellent teaching and research facilities
a rich set of single and joint honours undergraduate programmes
an exciting range of taught Masters programmes
quality support for PhD research students
a world-renowned Distance Learning Unit and programmes
collaboration with a professional archaeological unit
regular coverage of our research in the media
a friendly, helpful and supportive working environment

Fieldwork is core to our research and training. Read about our major Fieldschool at the local Iron Age hillfort of Burrough Hill (see news coverage here), where a new season is due to start in June (and with a 1st July Open Day)

Staff have field projects elsewhere in England, in Europe, North Africa and beyond, exploring the many archaeologies of past societies. Find out more about our many archaeological and ancient historical research projects.

Explore the links below to find out more about our courses, staff and research:

Undergraduate courses

Single and joint honours programmes

Postgraduate courses

Taught Masters and research opportunities

Distance Learning

Flexible learning from certificates to PhDs

Research projects across the globe

Tracing the Portable Past - EIASS: The 1st EIAAS – European Iron Age Artefacts Symposium - will be held at the University of Leicester from 6-7 October 2012. The postgraduate committee welcomes proposals for papers: deadline 30 June - click here for details.

Summer Careers Fair

CAREERS FAIR
Tuesday 15th May, 11.00 - 3.00

Students' Union - Percy Gee Building

Free to all! Invaluable for all under- and postgrads!

See the event poster here. Visit the Careers Service website for full details

Outreach in Caerwent: Read here about the School's Outreach team working on a Roman site at Caerwent as part of Operation Nightingale - using archaeology to help rehabilitate soldiers

Research Seminars: The next School Research Seminar is on Weds 16th May and features a set of current PhD speakers. Join us for tea and cake in the foyer at 4.30; the talk follows at 5.00 in CW2 Belvoir Park Lounge. Click here for the full semester's programme

Corpses of criminals project: The Wellcome Trust has awarded Prof Sarah Tarlow major funds for an interdisciplinary project which examines the fate and archaeology of the corpses of executed criminals. Read more

New Monographs: A Fine and Private Place: the Archaeology of Death and Burial in Post-medieval Britain and Ireland by Annia Cherryson, Zoë Crossland & Sarah Tarlow is now available as a Leicester Archaeology Monograph.

Viking boat burial discovery: A Viking boat burial, complete with sword, axe and other finds, has been uncovered at Ardnamurchan in W Scotland, as part of a project co-directed by Dr Oliver Harris. Read more: click here (BBC News) and here (The Guardian)