of The Claybrookes & Ullesthorpe FESTIVAL OF LEICESTERSHIRE & Displays and from earliest times including the RUTLAND ARCHAEOLOGY Exhibitions Roman town at High Cross. Exhibits and exhibitors would be welcomed. Part of THE CBA FESTIVAL OF BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND Village walk of about 1-1/2 miles, Saturday 16th – Sunday 31st July 2016 HISTORY OF CATTON PARK detailed leaflet provided. Refreshments We invite you to join in the 2016 Festival of British Archaeology - a chance to Through July: Monday – Friday: 11am available on both days. FREE but discover more about the rich and diverse heritage of Leicestershire and Rutland. -1pm, 2pm–4pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm. donations appreciated. Contact Brian The Festival has a fascinating range of events, talks and guided tours from some Ashby Museum, North Street, Ashby de Fowler 01455 209335 of the county’s archaeological and historical experts. Local groups will show you la Zouch, LE65 1HU. their own discoveries and invite you to become involved in making the next great An exhibition featuring the discovery! For an online version of the leaflet and to keep up to date with the archaeology and history of Catton Park Guided Walks & latest events go to: http://leicsfieldworkers.co.uk/festival-of-archaeology www. in South Derbyshire. Audio Guides to Tours archaeologyfestival.org.uk/whatson. Please always check for latest updates the museum are available in English, and news in case of last minute additions and changes. German and French. TREASURES OF THE JEWRY Adults: £1; Children: 50p. 01530 560090. WALL MUSEUM http://leicsfieldworkers.co.uk/festival-of-archaeology Mondays 11th, 18th & 25th & www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/whatson http://ashbydelazouchmuseum.org. uk/ Wednesdays 13th, 20th & 27th July: five year programme of investigation 2.30pm – 3.10pm. Jewry Wall Museum, Festival Launch into the history of the Park. Guided KING RICHARD’S REINTERMENT St Nicholas Circle, , LE1 4LB. tours of the excavations and Bradgate - The Bosworth Story Join the Friends of Jewry Wall Museum, Event Through Festival and until Saturday for a guided tour of their favourite House will go on throughout the day st BRINGING OUR PAST TO LIFE – along with many activities for all the 31 December: 10am - 5pm treasures. Meet at the Museum a day of Archaeology & History family, including demonstrations, Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, entrance. No booking necessary. FREE Sunday 10th July: 11am – 4pm archaeological material to handle, Sutton Cheney CV13 0AD (Donations to the Friends of Jewry Wall Jewry Wall Museum, St Nicholas Circle, This colourful exhibition remembers Museum) 0116 2254971 re-enactors and exhibitors. FREE. Car the remarkable local events to mark the Leicester, LE1 4LB parking £4.00 (all day) GUIDED WALK OF BRADGATE To launch the 2016 Festival this event procession of King Richard III’s mortal See also under main headings for other remains from Bosworth Battlefield PARK EXCAVATIONS will give you the chance to meet early events. Saturday 16th July: 10am -12.00 or 2pm people from the past, see and handle towards his final resting place at BRITAIN IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE . The exhibition – 4pm. Meet at the Newtown Linford recent discoveries, see and try crafts entrance to the Park, LE6 0HB and games from the past and find out – WHAT DID THE ROMANS DO features striking images from the day TO US? as well as the carriage on which his Visit the University of Leicester what you can do in the 2016 Festival. excavations in Bradgate for the end of Combat and living history displays and Tuesday 12th July: 7pm – 9.30pm coffin was carried to the memorial sundial, the oak casket containing soils season tour with archaeologists, Dr. tours of Leicester Castle and Leicester’s The United Reformed Church, The Richard Thomas or Peter Liddle. This historic churches. FREE. Borough, Hinckley, LE10 1NL from Fotheringhay, Middleham and the A fascinating talk by Professor David Battlefield and a fabulous embroidered will be a chance to find out all that has Mattingly of the University of Leicester banner made originally for display in been learned this year – the second Before The Festival about the consequences of the Roman Desford. season of a 5 year programme. BRADGATE PARK EXCAVATION invasion and Britain in the Roman Adults: £4; children FREE. Car parking CLAYBROOKE HISTORY OPEN DAY Empire. Did it improve our lives? Or £4.00. No booking required. rd 10.30am – 4.30pm Sunday 3rd July: 11am – 4pm not?!! Come and find out. Saturday 23 July: & th 11am -4pm Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford car £5 (including tea or coffee). Call Sunday 24 July, Claybrooke Church, Main Road, park, LE6 0HB Malcolm Lockett (01455 634765) for Visit the second year of the University further information. Prior booking not Claybrooke Parva, LE17 5AE excavations close to Bradgate House to The exhibition will focus on the essential. www.fieldwalking.org.uk or mediaeval church and the history see the results of the second year of a www.hinckleyurc.org.uk Page 1 LEICESTER – BUILDING A Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, Website: http://LIHS.org.uk or important and impressive medieval ROMAN CITY Sutton Cheney CV13 0AD www.swannington-heritage.co sites, partially destroyed after the Saturday 16th July: 11am – 1pm A 2km (1.25 mile) guided walk exploring 01162919706; [email protected] English Civil War. Meet at Jewry Wall Museum, St the Battle of Bosworth, the death of FREE FREE. Normal admissions apply: Nicholas Circle, Leicester, LE1 4LB King Richard III and the unlikely victory Enquiries 01530 413343 Join Stuart Bailey for a walk around of Henry Tudor. Adults £4.50, children. THE HISTORY OF CAVENDISH Roman Leicester. FREE (donations to £3.25, Family Tickets available. 01455 BRIDGE TOUR OF St. PETER’S Friends of Jewry Wall Museum) 290429; www.bosworthbattlefield.com Sunday 17th July: 2.30pm - 4pm MARKET BOSWORTH AND ITS Meet in the car park of the Old Crown CHURCHYARD VISIT THE GLENFIELD RAILWAY SEE THE AMAZING Inn, Shardlow, DE72 2HL Monday July 18th 2016: 2.30pm – 4pm TUNNEL (1832) TRANSFORMATION OF HOUGH Local expert, Bruce Townsend, will Meet inside St Peters Church, Church Saturdays and Sundays 16th, 17th, MILL take you on a walk of about one mile Street, Market Bosworth, CV13 0LL 23rd, 24th, 30th & 31st July: 4 timed Sundays 17th, 24th & 31st July: 2pm around the tiny hamlet of Cavendish Come and join a guided tour around the & pre- booked limited access visits at – 5pm. Hough Mill, St George’s Hill, Bridge, which lies on the North West 14th century parish church in historic 10am, 11.30am, 2.15pm & 3.30pm. Swannington, LE67 8QW boundary of Leicestershire and at one Market Bosworth, to be followed by Glenfield Tunnel, Glenfield, LE3 8BQ Explore the wonderful ongoing time extended into Derbyshire. Take a guided walk around the ancient Join the Leicestershire Industrial restoration of the 200 year old brick the minor road immediately before churchyard where some interesting History Society for a trip into one of windmill that moved villages. See how the modern bridge over the Trent and burials will be discovered. Duration the world’s first long railway tunnels the derelict shell has been transformed continue past the Old Crown down a approx 90 minutes (part indoor/ built in 1832 by the Stephensons as with doors, windows, floors, flour steep slope which leads you to the car outdoor). Booking required, contact part of the Leicester to Swannington milling equipment and fantail. As park. This place has a rich history dating Robert Leake on 01455 290020 or Railway and disused since 1966. well as the usual milling activities back to medieval times. It has witnessed [email protected]. Numbers are Numbers are strictly limited and must for children there will be heritage a Civil War battle, riots, plundering of its limited to just 15 persons. Donations be pre-booked. Older children only and games available for our visitors. warehouse perhaps even smuggling! welcomed for St. Peter’s Church. must be accompanied, mornings only. Leicestershire Industrial History Society Archaeology abounds. Visits start at a pre-arranged location will be continuing their excavation of Adults £4, children FREE. TOUR OF St. MARY’S in Glenfield village centre & involve the Califat Coal Mine buildings which is CHURCH, LUTTERWORTH & a 3/4 mile walk along the old railway part of the Swannington Heritage Trust A GRAND TOUR OF THE ROMAN PRESENTATION ON JOHN trackbed, through a private estate to site along with Hough Mill. FREE BATH HOUSE WYCLIFFE the tunnel entrance where visitors are www.swannington-heritage.co.uk/ Sunday 17th – Sunday 31st July: Every Tuesday 19th July & Thursday 28th: signed in and taken into tunnel under swannington_hough_windmill.html; day from12 noon – 12.50pm 2pm – 3.30pm. St Mary’s Church, instructions from LIHS stewards. 07936 669 276 Jewry Wall Museum, St Nicholas Circle, Churchgate, Lutterworth, LE17 4AN PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL - Booking Leicester, LE1 4LB Presentation on John Wycliffe, Rector on [email protected] or by VISIT THE EXCAVATIONS OF A Enjoy a 50 minute tour of Leicester’s of Lutterworth, from 1374 until his post to Chris Hossack, 125 Spencefield VICTORIAN COAL MINE SITE AT Roman Bath House, with replica objects death in 1384, who during this time Lane, Evington, Leicester, LE5 6GG with SWANNINGTON to handle. Donations to Friends of completed the 1st translation of the an SAE please, or 0116 2415153 Sundays 17th, 24th & 31st July: 2pm – Jewry Wall. 0116 2254971 bible into English, followed by a tour FREE but LIHS would welcome 5pm of his church, a Grade 1 listed building donations on the day towards their not Califat Spinney, (Near Hough Mill), St. which contains several 14th century George’s Hill, Swannington, LE67 8QW ASHBY CASTLE TOURS artefacts, an excellent example of a inconsiderable costs! Email: lihs99@ Sunday 17th July: 2pm, Sunday 24th & ntlworld.com; www.lihs.org.uk Visit the 9th year of monthly digs by the ‘Doom’ and other wall paintings. Leicestershire Industrial History Society Sunday 31st July: 2pm £3.00 - Pre Booking preferred if possible. BOSWORTH BATTLEFIELD and see the engine house, boiler bases, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle, South 01455 556616 or 01455 558797. GUIDED WALK fan house, ventilation tunnels & drains Street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, LE65 1BR [email protected] Saturday 16th, Sunday 17th, Saturday that have been uncovered. See also Daphne Hewitt of English Heritages site 23rd & Sunday 24th, Saturday 30th & the entry for Hough Mill nearby. Car staff will conduct tours of Ashby Castle, MARKFIELD VILLAGE WALK Sunday 31st July :11.30am & 2pm parking on site. built for William, Lord Hastings in the Tuesday 19th July: 7.15pm - 9.15pm 1470’s and one of Leicestershire’s most Meet outside St Michael’s church on Page 2 The Green, Markfield, LE67 9WD [email protected] Society for a heritage walk around the RATBY CHURCH & This is a walk that takes us back through village and church of Mowsley. Adults: CONSERVATION AREA the geological and social history of A TOUR OF HISTORIC CASTLE £2.50; Children FREE. No booking Saturday 23rd July: 2pm – 4pm Markfield. It will cover typical village life DONINGTON required. Enquiries 0116 2402386. Meet at Ratby Parish Church, Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth Wednesday 20th & 27th July: 10.30 am Lane, Ratby, LE6 0JF century and how this was influenced -12.30pm. Meet in the Market Place in EARL SHILTON GUIDED WALK Join Doug Harwood and Neil Glenister of by the geology, communications and Castle Donington, DE74 2JB, Thursday 21st July: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Ratby Local History Society for a guided landscape. Walkers will be able to see Delia Richards, the Curator of Castle Meet at The Hollow, Earl Shilton walk around ‘Ratby Conservation Area’. the recent success of turning the legacy Donington Museum, will lead a walk Join Earl Shilton Local History Society The walk will be moderately hilly in of old quarry workings into a public around historic Castle Donington, for a walk from the centre of Earl Shilton places. All ages welcome. FREE (but amenity and nature reserve. The walk an ancient settlement with a fine to the parish church of St Simon and St donation to Ratby Church appreciated). over Markfield Hill provides splendid medieval church and many other Jude via the Norman castle mound. views of Charnwood Forest and several interesting features. The walk will take Donations to St Simon and St Jude ROTHLEY VILLAGE HISTORY neighbouring counties about 2 hours. Pre-Booking required. Church. Booking required on 01455 WALK There is some rough terrain and steep Numbers limited to 20. Adults £4.00 846483. Saturday 23rd July 2016: 2pm tracks. People are advised to wear Children FREE. Enquiries 01332 812711 Meet at the Village Hall, Fowke Street, suitable footwear. Rothley, LE7 7PJ GUIDED TOUR OF St EDWARDS EVINGTON MOAT GUIDED TOUR Visit cruck Cottages, a Saxon cross shaft, FREE, 01530 242318 or 01530 244497 CHURCH, CASTLE DONINGTON Thursday 21st July: 7pm – 9pm th th a Victorian buy to let, and the Sleath LEIRE VILLAGE WALK Wednesday 20 & 27 July: Meet at the Church car park in the building legacy, hunt headstones and Tuesday 19th July: 7pm. Meet: Village 2-3.30 pm centre of Evington village, LE5 6FA see the test pitting of the Rothley ‘Big Hall, Main Street, Leire, LE17 5HE Church of St Edward, King and Martyr, Join Peter Liddle and Chris Hossack to Dig’ with expert guide Terry Sheppard. Join Carol Cambers, volunteer Castle Donington, DE74 2LA visit ‘Piggy’s Hollow’, one of the best More information from Terry Sheppard archaeological warden and VCH parish Meet outside the (south) porch of moated site complexes in Leicestershire on 0116 230 2931 or sheppard7pj@ historian, for a walk around the village the church, in the centre of Castle next to Evington Parish Church, which btinternet.com to uncover the village’s history from the Donington, for a tour of this Grade 1 will also be open. The complex includes prehistoric to the present day. Donation listed building and an introduction to the site of the manor house, fishponds HIDDEN FOXTON of £2 requested in aid of Victoria County its fascinating history, including new and a mill dam. A hidden gem! Saturday 23rd July:1pm History of Leicestershire, 01455 209748 discoveries made by Leicestershire No booking required. Adults £4, Foxton Canal Museum, Middle Lock, VCH. Children FREE Gumley Road, Foxton, LE1 7RA. GROBY OLD HALL TOUR OF The church was largely built in the 13th Conducted site tour of Foxton Locks GROUNDS century and adapted to contain a chapel LAUNDE ABBEY GUIDED WALK taking in many hidden or rarely visited Wednesday 20th July: 2pm – 4pm for the ‘St Mary Priest’, documented Friday 22nd July: 11am - 1pm parts of the site. Adults £2, Children Meet at the Hall Gates, opposite the from 1301 to 1540. Features include Launde Abbey, East Norton, LE7 9XB Join Peter Liddle on a walk around FREE. Stamford Arms, Groby, LE6 0FL three impressive monuments from the Join Peter Liddle for a walk round 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Launde Abbey, a very fine Jacobean A WIDER BOSWORTH the grounds of Groby Old Hall for an Adults £4, accompanied children FREE. mansion on the site of, and BATTLEFIELD WALK external look at the house, a visit to the Booking preferred but not essential. incorporating parts of, a medieval Saturday 23rdJuly: 9.30am – 4pm Norman motte and the area of the Time Enquiries and bookings to 0116 252 Augustinian . Peter will be sharing Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, Team excavations and geophysical 5722 or Email: [email protected] the results of recent research into the Sutton Cheney CV13 0AD surveys. This site was a castle of the Earls site. Launde does very fine lunches, Experienced walkers with a penchant of Leicester, the home of the Ferrers A GUIDED WALK AROUND which need to be booked on 01572 for history can join our expert guides and Greys families and that of Elizabeth MOWSLEY VILLAGE 717254. Coffee or light lunches can be and enjoy Bosworth Battlefield’s Wednesday 20th July: 7pm - 9pm; catered for without booking. extended 7½ mile (12k) walk looking Woodville, Edward IV’s Queen. rd BOOKING ESSENTIAL and numbers Saturday 23 July: 2pm – 4pm No booking required. Adults £4.00, at all aspects of the environment of limited. Adults £4, Children FREE. Meet at St. Nicholas Church, Mowsley, Children FREE this pivotal Wars of the Roses battle. No For booking 0116 221 4508; Peter. LE17 6NX dogs. Please provide your own lunch Join John Lacey of Mowsley Heritage A GUIDED WALK AROUND Page 3 and refreshments. For experienced GUIDED WALK AROUND GUIDED WALK OF STAUNTON Group of one of the finest parish walkers over 12 years of age. Adults HISTORIC MARKET BOSWORTH HAROLD churches in England, ‘The Lady of £17, Concesssions £12. 01455 290429 Tuesday 26th July: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Thursday 28th July: 10.30am-12 noon the Vale’, known for the height of or www.bosworthbattlefield.com Meet at Rectory Lane car park (parking Saturday 30th July: 10.30am-12 noon. its elegant spire, one of the tallest free), Market Bosworth, CV13 0LS Meet at the church, Staunton Harold, of any parish church in the country, WALK TO OLD HAYS MOATED Peter Loseby will lead a walk around LE65 1RU and the exquisite tombs of the Earls SITE RATBY Historic Market Bosworth, pointing out Join Betty Cawte of the Staunton and Countesses of Rutland. Meet Sunday, 24th July: 2pm – 4pm its many Harold Heritage Group for a short a manticore, a Shakespearean earl Meet at Burroughs Road top car park, architecturally important and unique introductory talk in this unique family and countess, and the ‘witches Ratby, LE6 0XZ (grid ref: SK49774 buildings. Duration approx 90 minutes. chapel and then a guided stroll to study tomb’. Help unravel its history. £3, 06166) Price £3.00 (which includes souvenir the archaeology of Staunton Harold pre-booking preferred if possible, Join Doug Harwood and Neil Glenister Market Bosworth Town Trail guide including the ice house, deserted 01949 843402, Email: information@ of Ratby Local History Society for booklet) village and dovecote, and to hear the bottesfordcommunitylibrary.org.uk a guided walk to Old Hays moated To secure a place please contact Peter history of the house and gardens. There farm. Moderately hilly. To find the grid Loseby on 01455 293659 or sml53@ is a display in the chapel. There are GUIDED WALK OF BURROUGH reference use gridreferencefinder.com hotmail.com toilets and a cafe in the stables – now HILL FREE. Numbers are limited to just 20 persons a craft centre. Friday 29th July: 2pm -4pm Meet at the top of the track near GUIDED No booking required. FREE but BOSWORTH BATTLEFIELD Burrough Hill Country Park, Somerby WALK donations to the church welcome. COSTUMED GUIDED WALK 01530 417428 Road, Burrough on the Hill, LE14 2QZ. Sundays 24th & 31st July: 3pm - 5pm Tuesday 26th July : 11.30am -1pm and Visit Leicestershire’s finest hill fort with Grace Dieu Priory, near Thringstone. 2pm – 3.30pm (weather permitting) GUIDED WALK OF BREEDON University of Leicester Archaeological Meet at the Bull’s Head Car Park, LE67 Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, HILL AND CHURCH Service’s John Thomas and Andrew 8LR. Sutton Cheney CV13 0AD Thursday 28th July: 2pm- 4pm Hyam, who directed the 5 year Walk through the ancient Grace Dieu Join our costumed guide to explore the Meet in the church car park on the top programme of excavations on the site. Woods, under the Charnwood Forest magic and mystery behind the history of of Breedon Hill, DE73 8HF They will take you round the site and Railway and along the Charnwood Bosworth Battlefield in this fascinating Breedon Hill is one of Leicestershire’s describe the excavation findings. Forest Canal to the picturesque ruins walk. Pre-booking advisable. most important site. An Iron Age Adults:£3; children free. Car parking of Grace Dieu Nunnery which was later Adults £4.50, children £3.25; 01455 hillfort containing an Anglo-Saxon £2.50. No booking required. a Tudor mansion. A Friends of Grace 290429 or www.bosworthbattlefield. monastery which later became a www.leics.gov.uk/burrough Dieu event. Adults £3, children FREE com medieval Augustinian priory and then www.gracedieupriory.org.uk; 01530 831895; a parish church. Betty Cawte and Peter WALK THE SWANNINGTON email [email protected] A GUIDED WALK AROUND Liddle will guide you around the priory INCLINE – THE MIDLANDS FIRST HUSBANDS BOSWORTH RAILWAY A WALK AROUND HISTORIC church which boasts one of the best Wednesday 27th July: 7pm - 9pm Saturday 30th July: 2pm - 4pm LEICESTER collections of Anglo-Saxon carvings in Meet at Turville Memorial Hall (opposite Meet at Snibston No 3 Coal Mine,Spring Tuesday 26th July: 2pm - 4pm the country and then walk around the the Bell Inn), Welford Road, Husbands surviving banks of the Iron Age hillfort. Lane, Swannington, LE67 8QR Meet at Jewry Wall Museum, St Bosworth, LE17 6JX Walk in the steps of Robert Stephenson Nicholas Circle, Leicester, LE1 4LB. No booking required. Adults £4, Join Melvyn Forman of Husbands children FREE. 0116 221 4508 for details. on a guided tour of the Swannington Join archaeologist Peter Liddle for a Bosworth Historical Society for a Incline at the western end of his 1832 walk round the historic core of Leicester heritage walk round the village of St MARY THE VIRGIN, Leicester and Swannington Railway looking at the remains of Roman and Husbands Bosworth. Adults: £2.50; BOTTESFORD – A HISTORICAL - the railway that was Medieval Leicester, including Leicester Children FREE. No booking required. TOUR the catalyst for the Castle. There will not be time to enter Enquiries 01858 880281. Friday 29th July: 2pm – 4pm. Meet at expansion of the North most of the buildings en route. church porch, St Mary’s, Rectory Lane, West Leicestershire Adults:£4; Children FREE. No booking Bottesford, NG13 0BA coalfield and the required. Enquiries 0116 221 4508 Take a tour with Bottesford Heritage creation of the town

Page 4 of Coalville. See the outline of the footwear is advisable.) FREE ENTRY OADBY AND WIGSTON THE CASTLES OF operators’ cottages and the winding (Charge for guided tour. Places limited). Thursday 21st July: 2pm – 3.30pm LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND engine house that could haul an 18 ton Brock’s Hill Visitor Centre, Washbrook Tuesday 26th July: 7.30pm – 9pm load up more than 700 yards of a 1:17 CASTLE GUIDED TOUR Lane, Oadby, LE2 5JJ Oakham Castle, Market Place, Oakham slope. Admire the amazing work of the Sunday 31st July: 2pm. Meet at Local archaeologist Peter Liddle, of LE15 6DR navvies who moved thousands of tons Oakham Castle, Market Place, Oakham Leicestershire Fieldworkers, will talk Come along to a talk by archaeologist, of material to dig out the cutting and LE15 6DR about the Anglo-Saxons around Peter Liddle, on the castles of create the embankment at the bottom Join us for a tour of the 12th century Leicester, putting the local finds around Leicestershire and Rutland in the best of the Incline. Return via historic castle hall, the remains of the Norman Oadby and Wigston into context. surviving castle great hall in the two Swannington village and see where the castle motte and the walls of the best £3.50 per person £2.50 for Friends of counties! A chance to look at Oakham preserved castle in the area. £1 per railway met the road, plus the ill sited Brock’s Hill. 0116 257 2888 Castle and see how it compares to the booking office that was half a mile from person, pay on the day. other local castles. £1.50. No booking where passengers boarded the train. MEDIEVAL CARVINGS IN required. Tel: 01572 758287 The guided walk is only a couple of Talks and LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND miles but is likely to take at least two Presentations Friday 22nd July: 7.30pm – 9pm HENRY’S JOURNEY TO hours as there are so many historic St. Peter’s Church, Church Langton, BOSWORTH - From exile to places on the route. BRITAIN IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Leicestershire, LE16 7SX conqueror, from Earl to King The return journey is up a steep hill. – WHAT DID THE ROMANS DO Bob Trubshaw, the organiser of the Wednesday 27th July, 7.30pm – 9.30pm FREE. BOOKING ESSENTIAL Email TO US? innovative Project Gargoyle which Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, chairman@swannington-heritage. Tuesday 12th July: 7pm – 9.30pm is recording all of Leicestershire and Sutton Cheney CV13 0AD co.uk or telephone 01530 222 833 The United Reformed Church, The Rutland’s medieval church sculpture, A power point presentation and talk Borough, Hinckley, LE10 1NL will show how the results of the Project about the journey Henry took to TOUR AND OPEN DAY OF THE A fascinating talk by Professor David shed light on the motifs and their become King by Battlefield Guide Eddie MAGAZINE GATEWAY Mattingly of the University of Leicester meanings. FREE Smallwood, followed by a Q&A session Sunday 31st July 2016: 11am – 3pm £6.including light refreshments. Tickets about the consequences of the Roman HADRIAN – MAN ON A MISSION The Magazine Gateway, Oxford Street, invasion and Britain in the Roman from Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Leicester, LE1 5XZ Sunday 24th July: 2pm -3.20pm Centre on 01455 290429 Empire. Did it improve our lives? Or Jewry Wall Museum, St Nicholas Circle, The Magazine Gateway will be open to not?!! Come and find out. the public from 11am - 3pm. Visitors Leicester, LE1 4LB METAL DETECTING IN £5 (including tea or coffee). Call Join Stuart Bailey for an illustrated LEICESTERSHIRE - a talk by Dr are invited to explore the building Malcolm Lockett (01455 634765) for on their own or book onto a guided talk on the famous Roman Emperor, Phil Harding. further information. celebrating this remarkable man’s Wednesday 27th July: 7pm - 9.30 pm tour with a Blue Badge guide. This is Prior booking not essential. a wonderful opportunity to discover achievements. In the spring of 117AD Bottesford Library, Old Primary School, www.fieldwalking.org.uk or www. Trajan lay on his death bed. He had led Grantham Road, Bottesford, NG13 0DF one of Leicester’s important medieval hinckleyurc.org.uk buildings, normally closed to the public. his great army of 45,000 men in the Metal detecting is often in the news, The guided tour starts at 11am for 1 THE ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY OF conquest of large parts of the Parthian with spectacular finds such as the hour and costs £2.50. Booking at Visit RUTLAND Empire and had taken Roman arms to Staffordshire Hoard hitting the Leicester Information Thursday 14th July: 7.30pm – 9pm the Persian Gulf and the shores of the headlines. However the real value of Centre, Gallowtree Rutland County Museum, Catmose Caspian Sea. Hadrian, his second in detecting lies in the more ordinary Gate, on 0116 299 Street, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6HW command, would succeed him. Hadrian metal items that give a unique insight 4444 or online www. Peter Liddle will talk about the Roman turned Rome in a new direction, into our local history. Phil Harding has goleicestershire.com archaeology of Rutland with special consolidating the glory of past been detecting in Leicestershire and (Tours are not suitable reference to recent finds. centuries and laying the foundation of beyond for the past 25 years and has for small children who A Rutland Local History and Records its glories to come. FREE. No booking documented more than 2,600 items may need to be carried. Society event. FREE. required on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. The building has a steep THE ANGLO-SAXONS AROUND stone staircase. Suitable £3, pre-booking preferred if possible, Page 5 01949 843402, information@ nibbles will be served. FREE alike to have a go at geophysical and hand to tell you all about the work of bottesfordcommunitylibrary.org.uk, topographic surveys of the historic the PAS and Treasure. Have a chance proceeds to Bottesford Community ROMAN MOSAICS Bath Grounds in Ashby de la Zouch. to handle some real archaeology Library Association Sunday 31st July: 2pm - 3pm Supported by Mercian Archaeological and look at some Treasure from the Jewry Wall Museum, St Nicholas Circle, Services CIC, everybody will be able Museums’ collections. Have you found THE CAVES OF NOTTINGHAM - a Leicester, LE1 4LB. to have hands on experience of any archaeological objects? Bring them talk by Julia Walker Join Dr Susan Tebby for an illustrated archaeological techniques and see the along to the museum on the 27th July Thursday 28th July: 7pm - 9.30pm talk on Leicester’s fine collection of results of their work. and the Finds Liaison Officer will be Bottesford Library, Old Primary School, mosaics. Through the use of interpretive The Bath Grounds are close to the available to identify and record them. Grantham Road, Bottesford, NG13 0DF displays she will describe the tessellated castle, which had a significant role in FREE There are over 500 man-made caves pavements and explain how they were the civil war, and are named after the cut into the sandstone beneath designed and constructed. Suitable for Ivanhoe Baths that were the centre of Family Friendly Nottingham City Centre with uses all ages. Mosaic arts and craft activities Ashby’s spa heyday. We are expecting that include cellars, a bowling alley, available throughout the day (11am to identify features from medieval Archaeology dwellings, factories and air raid – 3.30pm). Funded by the Friends of times through to the present day. AWESOME ARCHAEOLOGY! shelters! Come along to hear more Jewry Wall Museum. Light refreshments FREE (supported by the Heritage about the mysterious subterranean available. FREE. 0116 225 4971. Saturday 16th July – Saturday 30th Lottery Fund). www.bathgroundspath. July: Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, world beneath our feet. £3, pre- com/ Booking not essential but booking preferred if possible, 01949 Have A Go Events Saturday, 10am to 4pm helpful. 07850 053243; Email: Harborough Museum, The Symington 843402, Email: information@ [email protected] bottesfordcommunitylibrary.org.uk, EXCAVATION ON FOSSE WAY Building, Adam & Eve Street, Market proceeds to Bottesford Community Saturdays & Sundays 16th & 17th, 23rd DIG ROTHLEY Harborough, LE16 7LT Library Association & 24th July: 9.30am -12.30pm & 1pm - Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th July: 9am Discover all kinds of awesome 4pm. Fosse Meadows, near Sharnford, – 5pm. Locations around Rothley archaeology with a discovery trail THE HISTORY AND MEANING OF Leicestershire LE17 5EE Come and join the Charnwood Roots around Harborough Museum WAR MEMORIALS Join in the excavations by Hinckley Community Dig in Rothley or find out throughout the Festival of Archaeology Saturday 30th July: 2pm – 3pm Archaeological Society to discover a what has been discovered. Rothley FREE activity for children; 0116 305 All Saints Church, Highcross Street, hidden section of the Roman Fosse Way residents will be digging test pits 3627; [email protected]. Leicester, LE1 4PH at Fosse Meadows in Leicestershire. around the village centre with the help uk An illustrated talk on the history and This famous Roman road, that linked of volunteers and University of Leicester meaning of war memorials Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) to Exeter(Isca) AWESOME ARCHAEOLOGY AND archaeologists to find out more about HORRIBLE HISTORY! FREE. www.visitchurches.org.uk in Devon, is 307 km long. the village’s early history. The event £5 per session. Booking is essential. Saturday 16th July – Sunday 31st July: FINDING BRAUNSTON’S PAST is free and no previous experience is Tuesday to Saturday: 10am - 4:30pm, – AND HOW YOU CAN BE Please telephone Malcolm (01455) necessary but you must book a place in 634765 for more details and booking Sunday 2-5pm INVOLVED advance to take part. Charnwood Museum, Granby Street, Saturday July 30th: 6.30pm - 8pm your place/s. Beginners very welcome FREE Details from Julie Attard. Email: - all equipment and training provided. Loughborough, LE11 3DU Braunston and Brooke Village Hall, [email protected] http://www. Find the clues around the museum 3 Wood Lane, Braunston-in-Rutland, ASHBY de la ZOUCH charnwoodroots.org and discover just how awesome LE15 8QZ ARCHAEOLOGY – HAVE A GO! archaeology and how horrible After an introduction by Peter Liddle ARCHAEOLOGY FINDS AND Wednesday 20th – Saturday 23rd TREASURE DAY history can be! 01509 233 754; email: of Leicestershire Fieldworkers, Claire July: 10am - 4pm (Wed. & Sat); 2-8pm [email protected]. FREE Brown will talk about her survey of the Wednesday 27th July: 10am – 12pm (Thurs & Fri); sessions starting at 10am, and 1.30pm – 3.30pm activity for children aged 3 and above, fields of Braunston finding hitherto 1.30pm and 5.30pm. usual opening times unknown Roman sites and explain Rutland County Museum, Catmos St, Bath Grounds, Prior Park Road, Ashby Oakham LE15 6HW what else could be done with more de la Zouch, Leics, LE65 1BJ The Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable help. Finds will be displayed and, in A great opportunity for young and old Antiquities Scheme (PAS) will be on honour of the new finds, Roman-style Page 6 FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGY Antiquities Scheme will identify them fun. 0116 305 3860. www.leics.gov.uk/ ARCHAEOLOGY DAY AT ACTIVITIES for you. You will have the opportunity meltonmuseum FREE (small charges LUTTERWORTH MUSEUM. Throughout the Festival: Tuesday - to handle real Roman artefacts. for some activities) Saturday 23rd July: 10am – 4pm Saturday, 10am- 4.30pm Fun for all the family. A Friends of Jewry Lutterworth Museum, One Stop Shop, Melton Carnegie Museum, Thorpe End, Wall Museum event. FREE 0116 225 MAKE A MOSAIC Gilmorton Road, Lutterworth LE17 4PF Melton Mowbray, LE13 1RB 4971. www.leicester.gov.uk/museums Friday 22nd July: 10.15am-11.15am This year we have some great Kids drop-in activities with an & 11.45am – 12.45pm. Charnwood presentations most notably Dr. archaeology theme. Learn about Museum, Granby Street, Loughborough, Graham Morgan talking about Vikings, have a go at crafts, an LE11 3DU ‘Archaeological Forensic Science’ and archaeology quiz and more. Some Come along and get inspired by Roman Robert (Fred) Hartley speaking on activities may have a small charge, mosaics and create a mosaic from paper ‘The Medieval Earthworks of South please contact the museum for more £2.50 per child. Suitable for children Leicestershire’. In addition we have information closer to the festival. DIG IT! aged 3 and above, booking essential. fieldwalking techniques, finds handling 0116 305 3860 www.leics.gov.uk/ Monday 18th July - Friday 26th August: 01509 233 754; email: museum@ and identification and Bob Wells meltonmuseum. FREE (but small 11am - 1pm charnwood.gov.uk demonstrating flint knapping. King Richard III Visitor Centre, 4a St charges for some activities) HANDS ON ARCHAEOLOGY AT Displays will include Victoria County Martins,Leicester, LE1 5DB ASHBY de la ZOUCH MUSEUM History (VCH), test pit programme and CHARNWOOD DAY OF Learn the basics of archaeology without excavation finds. James and his coins, ARCHAEOLOGY getting your hands dirty! Uncover Saturday 23rd July: 11am - 4pm Ashby Museum, North Street, Ashby de as well as a few games make this a day Saturday 16th July: 11am – 4pm hidden artefacts and more modern not to miss. £3.50. Children FREE. Charnwood Museum, Granby Street, surprises in our mini archaeological la Zouch, LE65 1HU. Join Witan Archaeology to discover Loughborough, LE11 3DU dig pits. No booking required. www. MONARCH’S MARCH AT Focus on the archaeology of the kriii.com/your-visit/events/dig-it/ Tel: the past with artefacts from the RUTLAND COUNTY MUSEUM prehistoric to the modern day. There Loughborough area, run in conjunction 0300 300 0900, email: [email protected] Wednesday 27th July: 10am – 3pm will be opportunities to excavate with the Loughborough Coin and Standard entry applies: Adult £7.95 Rutland County Museum, Catmos St, your own finds and make your own Search Society and the Portable Child £4.75 Family £21.50 (2 adults + 2 Oakham LE15 6HW Antiquities Scheme. Have your own children) Senior/Student £7 timelines! Come and test your historical Follow in the footsteps of King finds recorded and Identified by the knowledge using chronology and create Edward IV, King George VI and Queen Finds Liaison Officer; Come and see ROMAN DAYS AT HINCKLEY your own artwork with inspiration from Elizabeth II and continue Rutland’s newly discovered objects and try your MUSEUM the past and its peoples! Picture books most famous tradition! Design your hand with a metal detector. Mondays July 18th and 25th: 11am - and historical posters will be on display. own crown, shield and horseshoe at 01509 233 754; email: museum@ 3pm. 18 Lower Bond St, Hinckley LE10 FREE http://ashbydelazouchmuseum. Rutland County Museum (10am – 1pm) charnwood.gov.uk 1QU. Car park next to museum. org.uk; 01530 560090; enquiries@ before parading through the streets FREE Roman themed activities and crafts hastyngs.plus.com of Oakham to the Castle. Here you will for children, with costumes to wear, bow down to the Lord of the Manor to ROME – BUILDING AN EMPIRE Roman numerals, mosiac making, and GARGOYLE HUNTING present your horseshoe and become Sunday 17th JULY: 11.30 - 3.30pm much more. Admission £1 per person WORKSHOP a Peer of the Realm! Why not bring Jewry Wall Museum, St Nicholas Circle, (includes museum entry and free soft Saturday 23rd July: 2pm – 4pm your own picnic, handle replica and Leicester, LE1 4LB drink for children). St. Peter’s Church, Church Langton, original historic artefacts and enjoy Join the Friends of Jewry Wall Museum Leicestershire, LE16 7SX the various family activities at Oakham for a day of Roman themed craft THUNDERING THOR’S DAY Bob Trubshaw, organiser of ‘Project Castle, the finest example of Norman activities. Thursday 21st July 2016: 10am–4.30pm Gargoyle’ will lead a fun ‘Gargoyle domestic architecture in England. The Visit the Roman Army Recruitment Melton Carnegie Museum, Thorpe End, Hunting Workshop’ aimed at children Castle has recently been refurbished Stand, try Roman arms and armour. Melton Mowbray, LE13 1RB of all ages. This will include drawing, following a £2 million Heritage Lottery Army surveying demonstrated and Come to Melton Carnegie Museum for writing poems, songs and stories Fund restoration project. Suitable explained. Bring along your own finds some awesome archaeology and learn and a chance to meet real medieval for 4-10 year olds. Children must be and Wendy Scott from the Portable all about the Vikings. Have a go at crafts, gargoyles! FREE accompanied by a parent or guardian an archaeology quiz trail and lots more at all times. £2.50 (no booking required) Page 7 LEICESTER ALL SAINTS The Festival in Leicestershire is Council for British Archaeology: www.leicester.gov.uk/leisure-and- REMEMBERS THE SOMME financially supported by: Leicestershire East Midlands culture/museums-and-galleries The Saturday 30th July: 10am – 4pm Fieldworkers; Leicestershire An umbrella group for local archaeology Friends of Jewry Wall Museum support All Saints Church, Highcross Street, Archaeological and Historical Society; societies and individuals in the East the work of the museum in many ways. Leicester, LE1 4PH Leicestershire and Rutland Heritage Midlands. Contact: Stuart Bailey equanimity@ Leicester All Saints is the home of a Forum; CBA East Midlands; Leicester www.archaeologyuk.org/cbaem simurg.co.uk large First World War Memorial. Many of City Council; Leicestershire Industrial those commemorated fought in what Portable Antiquities Scheme University of Leicester History Society; The Friends of Jewry The scheme to record archaeological was one of the most destructive battles Wall; Loughborough Coin and Search Archaeological Services of the First World War, the Battle of the finds and make the information Award winning commercial Society; Hinckley Archaeological available to all. Contact Finds Liaison Somme. During this event, children Society; University of Leicester archaeology unit based in Leicester Officer, Wendy Scott. 0116 305 8325 or www.le.ac.uk/ulas; 0116 2522848; will have the opportunity to make Archaeological Services models of WW1 related artefacts and email [email protected] email: [email protected] explore the stories behind the names How to get involved on the memorials and with the help of Leicestershire and Rutland have a qualified and experienced volunteers. vibrant archaeological scene. New An illustrated talk on the history and members are always welcome at all Loughborough Coin & Search meaning of war memorials will be the local groups. Come along to the Society delivered at 14.00. many events during the week and talk Council for British Archaeology, The Society for active detectorists and FREE. www.visitchurches.org.uk to members of the various groups, or Leicestershire Young numismatists in the Loughborough contact: Archaeologists Club area ROMAN MOSAIC MAKING The club for 8 to 16 year olds interested Sunday 31st July: 11.30am – 3.30pm www.lcss.org.uk or by contacting our in archaeology. secretary [email protected] Jewry Wall Museum, St Nicholas Circle, Contact the Leader: Stephen Bell on Leicester, LE1 4LB. Leicestershire Industrial History In conjunction with a talk by Dr Susan [email protected] http:// leicestershireyac.wordpress.com Society Tebby at 2pm mosaic arts and craft An active society studying Industrial activities will be available throughout Leicestershire Fieldworkers history with digs, talks and publications. the day. Funded by the Friends of Jewry 400+ members supporting www.lihs.org.uk Wall Museum. archaeological fieldwork around the 2 National Festival Light refreshments available. counties. FREE. 0116 225 4971. To see what else is taking place across 0116 221 4508 http://leicsfieldworkers. the UK as part of the CBA Festival of co.uk or email info@leicsfieldworkers. British Archaeology please visit www. The Festival co.uk Leicestershire & Rutland Heritage Forum archaeologyfestival.org.uk An umbrella organisation for Find out more about archaeology independent museums and heritage in Britain by joining the Council for groups in the two counties and the City British Archaeology or its Young of Leicester offering support, guidance, Archaeologists’ Club - please visit access to funding and professional www.archaeologyuk.org for more advice. www.lrhf.co.uk or email information. Email: deb@leicester. Leicestershire Archaeological [email protected] ac.uk and Historical Society Leicestershire’s oldest society and Jewry Wall Museum publisher of the journal, Transactions. The place to find out about Leicester’s www.lahs.org.uk www.le.ac.uk/lahs early past with fascinating displays of finds.

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