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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

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Publications

Scott S. (forthcoming) Fourth-century villas mosaics in the Coln Valley, Gloucestershire: Identifying patrons and viewers. Patrons and Viewers in Late Antiquity ed. B. Poulsen, B. Stine and T. Myrup Christensen. Aarhus: University of Aahus Press.

Scott S. 2010. Local responses to Roman imperialism. American Journal of Archaeology 114.3.

Scott S. 2006. Art and the archaeologist. World Archaeology 38, No. 4, pp. 628-643.

Scott S. 2004. Elites and exhibitionism: the society of the late Roman villa. In N Christie ed., Landscapes of Change. Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 39-65.

Scott S and Webster J. eds. 2003. Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 272 pp.

Scott S. 2003. Provincial art and Roman imperialism: an overview. In S Scott and J Webster, eds. 2003. Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-7.

Roman Art Book

Scott S. 2000. Art and Society in Fourth-Century Britain. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 53. Oxford: Oxbow. 192 pp.

Scott S. 2000. Art or Material Culture? Understanding approaches to Roman provincial art. In S Pearce, ed., Researching Material Culture. Leicester Archaeology Monographs 8. (Material Culture Study Group. Occasional Paper No. 1), pp. 37-42.

Scott S. 1997. The power of images in the late Roman house. In R Laurence and A Wallace-Hadrill, eds., Domestic Space in the Roman World: Pompeii and Beyond (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 22), pp. 53-68. Ann Arbor: Michigan.

Cottam S, Dungworth D, Scott S and Taylor J, eds. 1995. Proceedings of the Fourth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford: Oxbow. 150pp.

Scott S. 1995. Symbols of power and nature: the Orpheus mosaics of fourth-century Britain and their architectural contexts. In P Rush, ed., Theoretical Roman Archaeology 2. Worldwide Archaeology Series: Avebury, pp. 105-123.

Art and Society in Fourth-century Britain: Villa Mosaics in Context (Plymouth archaeology occasional publication)