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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur 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. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. 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...

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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

Key Contacts

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Dr Martin Sterry

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trans-Sahara Projectmartin sterry

BA, MA, PhD (Leicester)

Tel: 0116 252 5735

Email: mjs66@le.ac.uk

 

 

Martin read archaeology and ancient history at Cardiff University. He then worked as a field archaeologist for Albion Archaeology before moving to Leicester to complete his Masters and PhD on Iron Age to Roman landscapes in central Italy. Since completing his PhD he has worked as a research assistant for the Ghadames Archaeological Survey: Phase 1, as a research associate on the Leverhulme funded Peopling the Desert Project and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC funded Trans-Sahara Project. His primary research interests are landscape DMP site view 2011archaeology, GIS applications and remote sensing.

Martin has undertaken fieldwork worked on various projects in Italy, Britain and especially Libya. From 2007-2011 he has been involved with the Desert Migrations Project as a survey and GIS specialist. In 2011 he organised and led a survey of qsur for the Peopling the Desert Project and was Assistant Director of the Ghadames Archaeological Survey: Phase 2.

 

Selected Publications

Sterry, M., and Mattingly, D.J. 2011. DMPXIII: Reconnaissance Survey of Archaeological Sites in the Murzuq Area. Libyan Studies 42.

Sterry, M., Tullett, A. and Ray, N. (eds.). 2010. In Search of the Iron Age. Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2008, University of Leicester. Leicester Archaeology Monograph 18. Leicester: School of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Sterry, M. 2008. Searching for Identity in Italian Landscapes. In Fenwick, C., Wiggins, M. and Wythe D. (eds.). TRAC 2007: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London 2007. Oxford: Oxbow. 85-99.