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

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Publications

Gouldwell, AJ, and Van der Veen, M. 2011. Plant remains from the vicus at South Shields Roman fort. The Arbeia Journal 9 (2010): pp. 119-125.

Wilkinson, IP, Tasker, A, Gouldwell, A, Williams, M, Edgeworth, M, Zalasiewicz, J, and Christie, N. 2010. Micropalaeontology reveals the source of building materials for a defensive earthwork (English Civil War?) at Wallingford Castle, Oxfordshire. Journal of Micropalaeontology 29: pp. 87-92.  pdf

Coward F and Gouldwell AJ. 2008. The Animal Bone. In Gillings M, Pollard J, Wheatley D and Peterson R. Landscape of the Megaliths. Oxford: Oxbow. P. 319.

Allsworth-Jones P, Gouldwell AJ, Lechler G, Mitchell SF, Walters S, Webster J and Young R. 2006. The pre-Columbian site of Chancery Hall, St Andrew. In Atkinson L-G. (ed.) The Earliest Inhabitants: the Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies. Pp. 47-57.

Gouldwell AJ. 2006. Appendix: a laboratory study of the remains from layer 3, lot 386, Chancery Hall. In Atkinson L-G. (ed.) The Earliest Inhabitants: the Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies. Pp. 58-68.

Rumsey FJ and Gouldwell AJ. 2003. Orobanche lucorum A. Br. ex Koch naturalised in Leicestershire. BSBI News 93: p. 79.

Gouldwell AJ. 1998. Animal Bone. In P Clay. Neolithic/early Bronze Age pit circles and their environs at Oakham, Rutland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 64, pp. 321-323.

Gouldwell AJ. 1994. The animal bone. In P Clay and R Pollard. Iron Age and Roman Occupation in the West Bridge Area, Leicester. Excavations 1962-1971. Leicester: Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records Service. Pp. 155-156.

Gouldwell AJ and Stirland A. 1994. The human skeletal material. In P Clay and R Pollard. Iron Age and Roman Occupation in the West Bridge Area, Leicester. Excavations 1962-1971. Leicester: Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records Service. P. 155.

Gouldwell AJ. 1994. Fruits and seeds from sediments from Mantles Green, Amersham. In P Yeoman and IJ Stewart. A Romano-British villa estate at Mantles Green, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Record of Buckinghamshire 34, microfiche A3-B6

Gouldwell AJ. 1992. Animal bones. In P Clay. A Romano-British farmstead at Grove Hill Farm, Enderby, Leicestershire. Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. 66, pp. 58-69.

Gouldwell AJ. 1990. Appendix III: an analysis of animal bones from occupation material recovered in the 1978-81 excavation. In Megaw JVS. The Anglo-Australian excavation on the Dürrnberg bei Hallein 1978-1981 interim report’ Germania 68 (2), pp. 544-549

Gouldwell AJ. 1987. The animal bones. In Buckley R and Lucas J. Leicester Town Defences. Leicester: Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Record Service. Pp. 109-112.

Gouldwell AJ. 1985. The animal bones. In Gibson AM and McCormick A. Archaeology at Grendon Quarry, Northamptonshire, part 1: Neolithic and Bronze Age sites excavated in 1974-5. Northamptonshire Archaeology 20, pp. 49-51.

Gouldwell AJ and Taylor MJ. 1984. List of significant charcoal samples. In Crummy, PJ. Excavations at Lion Walk, Balkerne Lane, and Middleborough, Colchester, Essex. Appendix 15 (microfiche). Colchester: Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd.

Gouldwell AJ. 1977. Identification of charcoal samples. In Crummy PJ. A Bronze Age cemetery at Chitts Hill, Colchester, Essex. Essex Archaeology and History 9, p. 14.