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Dr G Speed
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Archaeologist in Leicestershire
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · 15d
Some remarkable archaeology at Leicester’s market place — Roman buildings, medieval market surfaces, and the remains of a long-lost medieval building with dungeon!

Image shows a medieval building being excavated. For more see : www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archaeologists investigate the stone walls and layers of a late medieval building at Leicester market.
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Jul 23
I had a preview of the new Roman Museum in Leicester tonight, now displayed in a modern way, highly recommend it to all, great to see objects from some digs I've been involved in, including the huge Stibbe mosaic & Iron Age sword - opens 26 July AD2025!
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Apr 25
'new' Roman museum opening July 2025! 🎉 @jewrywallroman.bsky.social #leicester #archaeology news.leicester.gov.uk/news-article...
Leicester’s revamped Jewry Wall Museum to open in July
LEICESTER’S exciting new Roman visitor attraction is to open its doors to the public on Saturday 26 July.
news.leicester.gov.uk
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Mar 15
Richard III was reburied a decade ago in Leicester this month, read more on the occasion here: ulasnews.com/2020/03/15/r...
Richard III remains, prior to reburial in 2015
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Mar 15
Link to blog here! ulasnews.com/2025/03/12/r...
Replicating a unique Roman key handle
A unique – and fragile – Roman key handle portraying a ‘Barbarian’ grappling with a lion will soon go on display in the newly refurbished Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester. It was once a high-st…
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Mar 12
Great to work with colleagues at @archanchistleic.bsky.social to create this replica Roman key handle, for use in the newly revamped Jewry Wall Roman Museum in Leicester (re)opening soon!
Full blog here ulasnews.com/.../replicat... #Roman #Archaeology @jewrywallroman.bsky.social
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Mar 7
The School of Archaeology building @archanchistleic.bsky.social was today named 'Kathleen Kenyon Building', in honour of Dame Kenyon who led Leicester's first archaeological excavation in the 1930s ulasnews.com/2025/03/07/k...
Kathleen Kenyon and the Jewry Wall
Today we celebrate the renaming of the Archaeology and Ancient History Building at the University of Leicester after the pioneering archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon. The Kathleen Kenyon Building …
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Dec 10
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Dec 10
A free archaeology talk on the student training field schools of past, present, and future by University of Leicester Archaeological Services & @archanchistleic.bsky.social

5pm (UK Time) 11th December, in person (Uni of Leicester, George Porter LT A), or live online (link in comments)
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Dec 5
Must Farm book gets my vote, amazing 😍
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · Dec 5
Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement Vol 1 & Vol 2 nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2025!
archaeology.co.uk/awards/book-...
Book cover: Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement - Volume 1. Landscape, architecture and occupation by Mark Knight, Rachel Ballantyne, Matthew Brudenell, Anwen Cooper, David Gibson and Iona Robinson Zeki (covers shows colour photo of collapsed, charred superstructure of Late Bronze Age round house preserved in river silts). Book cover: Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement - Volume 2. Specilalist reports edited by Rachel Ballantyne, Anwen Cooper, David Gibson, Mark Knight & Iona Robinson Zeki (cover shows inverted grey and white drawing of the collapsed wood mass)
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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Nov 17
University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have discovered a shaft filled with 12th c. bodies in central Leicester, thought to represent 5% of the town's population at the time. Were they the victims of an undocumented pandemic or of starvation? www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Mystery surrounds 800-year-old Leicester burial pit containing 123 bodies
Researchers are baffled by 12th-century corpses uncovered at a heritage learning centre built in the garden of Leicester Cathedral after discovery of Richard III’s remains
www.theguardian.com
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Nov 29
This Anglo-Saxon 'small long' brooch (5th/6th century CE), was found on a dig in Leicester. Part of the growing evidence showing life continued in the ruinous Roman city, previously thought abandoned during the 'dark ages'. shorturl.at/hdxx6 #archaeology #leicester
An Anglo-Saxon 'small long' brooch, dating to the 5th/6th century CE, found on a dig in Leicester
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Dr G Speed @speedydig.bsky.social · Nov 29
Hello Bluesky! I'm here to share my love of #Archaeology
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