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NETWORK NEWS
The newsletter of the Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeological Network
NUMBER 32: June 2007
EDITORIAL
This summer promises to be a very
exciting one for local archaeologists
and historians, with exciting events,
and acquisitions of highly significant
collections.
Donington le Heath Manor House (and
other venues and groups) is hosting a
series of events, and an excavation,
for National Archaeology Week, and
the new Battlefield Exhibition will open
at Bosworth Battlefield Visitor Centre.
Leicester City Council’s Newarke
Houses Museum is set to reopen on
23rd June after its major refurbishment,
telling the stories of 20th century
Leicester and the Royal Leicestershire
Regiment (The Tigers).
Leicestershire Museums are close to
acquiring
the
South
East
Leicestershire Iron Age Treasure, and
are also hoping to purchase gold
jewellery of Bronze Age and AngloSaxon date. Numerous archives from
archaeological fieldwork have recently
been deposited with Leicestershire
Museums, including developer-funded
projects right across the County, and
work by voluntary organisations such
as
the
Hinckley,
Lutterworth,
Shepshed, and Tilton fieldwork groups,
the Huncote Heritage Society, and
Witan Archaeology. Preparation of the
publication of excavations on Bronze
Age burial mounds at Cossington is
impending, and ‘post-excavation’ work
is under way on major projects such as
the gas pipeline from Ashby Folville to
Thurcaston, and the Rearsby bypass.
The archives, including hopefully the
finds, from all these projects and many
more will be deposited with the
museum service in due course.
Deposition of the archive from an
earlier project, the Wing-Whatborough
Hill water pipeline, is imminent. This
follows the publication of a major paper
on the Launde late Upper Palaeolthic
camp site by Lynden Cooper of
University of Leicester Archaeological
Services in the Proceedings of the
Prehistoric Society, Volume 72, at the
end of 2006.
NEW POLICY FOR SEARCHING
COUNTY COUNCIL LAND
Policy for metal detecting and
archaeological
searches
on
Leicestershire
County
Council
controlled land including land to
which the public has a right of
access
A new policy for searches on land
controlled by Leicestershire County
Council, including land to which the
public has a right of access (‘Council
land’
hereinafter),
has
been
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implemented with effect from 1st April
2007. It should be noted that this is
NOT an attempt to ban metal
detecting, and that the policy also
applies to field walking and other forms
of archaeological fieldwork.
The policy applies to ALL Council land
(that is, land controlled by the
authority), including
farms, parks,
Country Parks, playing fields and land
under other forms of usage, and all
public footpaths and other Rights of
Way across such land.
This
policy
will
ensure
that
archaeological information gained from
searches on Council land can be
properly recorded and that this
information can be used to enhance
our knowledge of the County’s past.
The policy requires ANYONE who
wishes to search such land to be in
possession of a valid Licence. The
Licensee will be expected to report
ALL finds from Council land to the
Leicestershire Finds Liaison Officer,
Wendy Scott (tel. 0116 265 8325).
The Licence requires the Licensee,
and the Tenant where appropriate, to
waive their rights to any Treasure
reward. This is to ensure that any
objects recovered that are declared to
be Treasure can be retained by
Leicestershire
County
Council
Museums Service for the benefit of the
public. The Museums Service also
reserves the right to retain objects if it
is felt that they will enhance the County
Archaeology collection. In reality this is
likely to apply with greater frequency to
field walked collections than to objects
recovered by metal detecting.
The licence will have a nominal fee of
£10 per annum (for 2007-8, to be
reviewed each year) and it will be
issued to individuals only. A licence will
be issued for each landholding (e.g.
each farm), so that a single licence will
cover all the fields of a given farm that
the Tenant and Council agree to make
available.
The licence fee may be waived for
applicants who are members of certain
heritage organisations administered by
the County Council: Archaeological
and Heritage Wardens, and the
membership of the Leicestershire
Museums Archaeological Fieldwork
Group, are likely to benefit from this
waiver.
The licence application form can be
obtained from Nazima Shaikh (tel.
0116 265 6911) of Leicestershire
County Council Property Services.
Nazima
will
liaise
with
the
Archaeological Services Team before
a licence is issued so that relevant
considerations can be addressed, such
as whether the land contains
Scheduled Monuments or upstanding
earthworks. If such features exist in the
search area both the Licensee and the
Tenant will be informed and asked to
ensure these areas are avoided.
It is hoped that this policy will be
welcomed by all concerned as a
positive way of managing the
vulnerable archaeological heritage of
Leicestershire County Council’s land.
MEMBERSHIP
East Langton and South Luffenham
Parish Councils have joined the
Network since July 2006, bringing the
total to 193 of the number of
representative bodies signed up. 162
of these are in Leicestershire (out of
222, = 73.0%), and 31 in Rutland (out
of 56, = 55.4%).
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There are 29 vacancies amongst these
193, and 85 Parish authorities that
have
never
appointed
an
Archaeological Warden, of which three
have requested that they are not
contacted about the Network (Bardon,
Beeby and Blaston Parish Meetings).
There are 161 individuals who are
currently Archaeological Wardens.
Wardens can now get in touch with
one another through the internet,
thanks to a new website developed by
the Community Heritage Initiative. This
is intended as a forum where they can
discuss issues, ask each other for
advice, and so on. Visit:
http://forums.communityportals.co.uk/
go to the bottom of the page under
specialist forums > Heritage Wardens
Forum
NEW INFORMATION PACK AND
HISTORIC
ENVIRONMENT
RECORDS
A second edition of the Archaeological
Wardens’ Information Pack was
published early in 2007. This
represents a comprehensive revision
of the original pack, which was
released in 2000 and issued to all
Wardens
appointed
after
its
publication. The new Pack has been
issued to newly appointed Wardens,
but is available to existing Wardens
either as a Word document via e-mail
or as hard copy.
Enhancements to the HER Summaries
are also being included in Packs sent
to new Wardens. These include printouts with the sites of archaeological
‘Monuments’
superimposed
upon
aerial photographs taken in 2006, and
1880s Ordnance Survey maps, as well
as improved HER maps.
Please contact Richard Pollard (e-mail
rpollard@leics.gov.uk, Tel. 0116 265
8324) if you would like a copy of the
new Information Pack, stating whether
you want it via e-mail or post.
Wardens can also request copies of
the enhanced HER for their parishes,
but priority will be given to those who
requested aerial photographs via the
July 2005 Questionnaire.
UNDERSTANDING
PLOUGH
DAMAGE (From Salon 161 of
26.03.07)
Edward Vaizey (Conservative MP for
Wantage) put a parliamentary question
to the Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport on 20 March to ask
‘what estimate her Department has
made of the number of designated
monuments that have been damaged
by agricultural cultivation in the last ten
years?’. Back, via Culture Minister
David Lammy, came the answer: ‘my
Department does not hold such
information. However, English Heritage
is currently undertaking a programme
of regional Scheduled Monuments at
Risk studies which will help to quantify
the number of Scheduled Monuments
under
continuous
or
periodic
cultivation, and the proportion of these
considered to be at risk of damage.
The outcomes of this research will be
published by English Heritage later this
year.’
English Heritage and DEFRA (the
Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs) are working together on
research to understand better exactly
what happens to monuments under
cultivation. These partners have in turn
commissioned Oxford Archaeology to
construct simulated archaeological
features ─ buried walls, pits, ditches
and postholes ─ which researchers at
Cranfield University’s Soil Science
Department are then cultivating using
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different techniques to understand
what happens to sub-surface features
and whether changes in farming
practice can help.
This is a five-year project, but the
results are clearly of great importance
given the commitment in the Heritage
Protection White Paper to provide
better
protection
for
scheduled
monuments under cultivation.
themselves they are pursued’. Key
organisations will be asked to
contribute information to the project by
filling in an online questionnaire;
interviews and site visits will also be
conducted. The project will also collect
data on the illicit sale of goods of
archaeological material online and
elsewhere.
DOMESDAY GOES DIGITAL (From
Salon 146)
OXFORD
ARCHAEOLOGY
TO
INVESTIGATE
NIGHTHAWKING
(From Salon 161 of 26.03.07)
Oxford Archaeology is also involved in
research to assess the impact of illegal
digging on scheduled monuments. The
project, called ‘Nighthawks and
Nighthawking:
damage
to
archaeological sites in the United
Kingdom and Crown Dependencies
caused by illegal searching and
removal
of
antiquities’,
is
an
eighteenth-month study funded by
English Heritage, Cadw, Historic
Scotland, the National Museums and
Galleries of Wales and the Portable
Antiquities Scheme. It will produce
baseline data on the extent of damage
to the archaeological heritage caused
by nighthawking in England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as
the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.
As well as collecting data, another aim
of the project is to foster a climate of
opinion that does not tolerate the
illegal search, removal and sale of
antiquities. Dr Pete Wilson, of English
Heritage, explained: ‘What we are
going to do is try to get some
reasonably reliable data about the
scale of the problem and raise the
profile of it with the Police and the
Crown Prosecution Service, so that
when potential prosecutions present
Great excitement was generated by
the publication of William the
Conqueror's tax audit on 4 August
2006 when the National Archives
made a complete transcript of the
Domesday Book available for the first
time ever on the internet at
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/do
mesday/. Now, for a fee, researchers
can search the book by place name or
person and obtain a copy of the
original page and a translation of the
relevant entry into modern English.
Access is free on terminals at the
National Archives' Kew search room.
The National Archive project has taken
the best part of a decade to come to
fruition: translation of the text into
modern English took six years alone,
with digitisation of the pages taking
place in parallel. By the end of the first
day online, more than 20,000 people
had already logged on to learn what
their area was like 900 years ago.
A survey commissioned to celebrate
the Domesday Book's leap from
sheepskin
to
computer
screen
revealed some inventive ideas about
its origins: surely the wags who
attributed the book to Tony Blair and
Gordon Brown were pulling the
interviewer's leg, as were those who
suggested it was the latest Dan Brown
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novel.
Adrian
Ailes,
Domesday
specialist at the National Archives,
responded to this last suggestion with
similar good humour: 'Sorry to
disappoint, but it's not the case. There
is no code. The letters 'T R E' recur
often but they refer simply to tempus
regis edwardi - "in the reign of King
Edward" - nothing more significant
than that.'
The survey also showed that while 80
per cent of respondents had heard of
the Domesday Book, 13 per cent
believed it was a Biblical book, while 8
per cent thought it was commissioned
by King Harold, 3 per cent credited it to
Richard the Lionheart and a further 3
per cent to Henry VIII.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND WEB PAGES
ON FAMILY HISTORY SOURCES
(From Heritage Link Update 96,
25.08.06)
A new web portal brings together a
powerful range of sources to help
family historians. The move reflects the
huge popularity of research into family
history. When the 1901 Census was
placed online in 2002 it soon became
one of the most visited sites on the
web. More than 829,000 people have
visited The National Archive’s Family
Records Centres in London and Kew
in the last three years.
The Church’s dedicated web area
brings together links to a range of
sources for tracing family histories –
including the Lambeth Palace Library –
and provides contact points for
archives and repositories. For many
years, the Church has been a natural
point of information for those seeking
information on their family history.
Local clergy are often approached by
people seeking access to the church’s
registers, but in many instances the
records that they are after have been
moved elsewhere. The pages point
researchers to sources that can help
identify where these records may now
be held.
For
the
new
pages
see
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/libr
ariesandarchives/familyhistory/index.ht
ml
THE ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH
(From Salon 152)
Salon 148 reported the publication by
Brian Sykes, Professor of Human
Genetics at Oxford University, on the
work of The Oxford Genetic Atlas
Project, which concludes that the most
common genetic fingerprint in modern
Britons is almost identical to the
genetic fingerprint of the inhabitants of
coastal regions of northern and
western Spain. Now a second study,
by Stephen Oppenheimer, called The
Origins of the British: a genetic
detective
story
(published
by
Constable) has reached broadly similar
conclusions.
Oppenheimer’s book is more soberly
academic than the avowedly popular
Sykes, and he consistently uses
archaeological evidence to support his
arguments, so that his book comes
across as more rigorous. He too notes
the genetic similarity between Basques
and Brits but doesn’t believe this
means that Britain was populated by
migrants from northern Spain sailing
up the Atlantic; instead he simply
believes that Basques and British
people all share a common origin in
the people who settled Europe as
hunter-gatherers, between 15,000 and
7,500 years ago. Oppenheimer
believes that another small wave of
immigration arrived during the Neolithic
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period, when farming developed about
6,500 years ago.
Like Sykes, he finds that the English,
Irish, Welsh and Scots derive most of
their current gene pool from the same
source. Oppenheimer says that ‘these
figures are at odds with the modern
perceptions of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon
ethnicity based on more recent
invasions. There were many later
invasions, as well as less violent
immigrations, and each left a genetic
signal, but no individual event
contributed much more than 5 per cent
to our modern genetic mix.’
Oppenheimer’s book is full of
interesting thoughts on the true origins
of the Celts, for example, and whether
they really are a definable cultural,
genetic and linguistic group. But one of
his most startling conclusions is that
the language that we know as ‘English’
is pre-Roman rather than post-Roman
in origin. He argues in detail and at
length that there was no post-Roman
invasion of Britain from the Germanicspeaking near Continent. How then did
we all end up speaking a dialect of
German?
Because,
says
Oppenheimer, we always did ─ that
was the language we spoke before the
Roman conquest.
In support of this inference, he
considers Tacitus’ report that ‘between
Britain and Gaul the language differs
but little’ and argues that the language
of Gaul was Germanic. He also cites
recent lexical evidence analysed by
Cambridge geneticist Peter Forster
and continental colleagues who found
that the date of the split between Old
English and continental Germanic
languages goes much further back
than the ‘Dark Ages’, and that English
might well have been a separate,
fourth branch of the Germanic
language before the Roman invasion.
These challenging ideas, along with
much
else
(including
a
clear
explanation of how genetic tracking
works), are summarised in a special
report that Stephen Oppenheimer
wrote for the October issue of Prospect
magazine, called ‘Myths of British
ancestry’
(see<www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=
7817>).
COMMUNITY
ARCHAEOLOGY
FORUM LAUNCHED (From Salon 154
of 11.12.06)
The Council for British Archaeology
has launched a dedicated online
resource for community archaeology
groups across the UK, enabling them
to share the results of their work online
using wiki technology, which enables
web pages to be built collectively (the
same technology that is used to power
the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia).
The Community Archaeology Forum
(CAF) enables users to create pages
and upload material to gain a greater
profile for their project, to share ideas
with others and to start discussions
about the interpretation of the material
they have found. They may want to
look at other projects to get ideas
about how to tackle their own
archaeological site, building or survey,
or simply because they are interested
in what others have found.
Dr Dan Hull, the CBA’s Head of
Information & Communications, says
that ‘CAF is a developing resource and
will, in time, contain advice and
guidance pages helping community
archaeology projects to achieve high
standards of research, fieldwork and
interpretation. Useful links, suggested
reading and other resources can be
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added. It is not, however, meant as a
formal and final repository of
archaeological data ─ rather, it is a
forum for displaying and discussing
work in progress.’
As well as viewing the CAF website
(<www.britarch.ac.uk/caf>), you can
also follow the ‘Discussion List’ link to
stay in touch with the latest events and
opinions in community archaeology.
INTRODUCTORY PACK ON
FUNDING AND FINANCE FOR VCOS
(From Heritage Link Update 100,
20.10.06)
This Introductory Pack on Funding and
Finance from NCVO is designed for
small and medium-sized voluntary and
community organisations (VCOs) and
particularly for the funding advisors
who work with them. The Pack alerts
organisations to the funding options
available to them, and highlights key
messages
about
financial
management and sustainability. It also
provides advisors with a useful tool to
use with the organisations they work
with.
Six Guides cover: sustainable funding,
financial management, fundraising,
trading, procurement and contracting
and loans and other forms of finance.
They can be downloaded free from
<http://www.ncvovol.org.uk/sfp/index.asp?id=3199>
Hard copies of the Pack can be
obtained from NCVO publications or
telephone helpline 0800 2798 798.
NEW TOOLS FROM VOLUNTEERING
ENGLAND (From Heritage Link
Update 100, 20.10.06)
Following a debate in Birmingham on
13th October asking whether excessive
risk management is destroying the
culture of volunteering, Volunteering
England has made available a risk
toolkit for voluntary organisations How to take care of risk in
volunteering.
<http://www.volunteering.org.uk/NR/rd
onlyres/2B108CBD-0BBD-4DB3A4D2D987B885D1F3/0/Risk_toolkit.pdf>
Part of the Volunteering England
website is devoted to the volunteering
risks
<http://www.volunteering.org.uk/Projec
ts+and+initiatives/volunteeringandrisk
management/> You can share your
views
and
concerns
at
<http://volunteeringengland.blogspot.c
om/>
Volunteering England regularly holds
events addressing topics of particular
interest to the voluntary sector. For
more
information
see
www.volunteering.org.uk/events
<http://www.volunteering.org.uk/events
>
LHI SEES COMMUNITY GROUPS GO
ONLINE (From Heritage Link Update
107, 09.02.07)
Work by Instrata on the Local Heritage
Initiative (LHI) administered by the
Countryside Agency and funded by the
Heritage Lottery Fund is helping
community heritage groups put their
knowledge online.
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The LHI has now come to an end, but
many of the groups are ongoing. The
information in their website databases
has been passed to the National
Archive, preserving it for the future.
The project websites can be seen at
www.lhi.org.uk Contact details: Anita
Mackenzie Mills, Project Manager,
01223
301101.
Email:
anita@instrata.co.uk
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS with an
archaeological,
or
historical
reenactment theme (see also the
website www.goleicestershire.com and
Events Guide).
NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY WEEK
14th-22nd July, various venues. Final
programme to be announced in June.
This
year
sees
Leicestershire
Museums’ first co-ordinated attempt to
join in with the annual Council for
British Archaeology week of events.
The programme is being finalised in
June. Events are taking place
throughout Leicestershire, as well as at
the Jewry Wall Museums, Leicester,
and
Rutland
County
Museum,
Oakham.
See
the
link
from
http://staging/national_archaeology_we
ek
DONINGTON-LE-HEATH
MANOR
HOUSE (all events FREE and 11004.00 unless stated) Tel. 01530 831259.
14th-22nd
July.
2.00-4.00
DIGGING DONINGTON
daily.
Peter Liddle writes:
Following the success of the Big
Roman Dig at Medbourne it is clear
that people are very keen on the
opportunity to dig. This year we will
have a nine day evaluation at
Donington le Heath Manor House from
July 14th – 22nd, during National
Archaeology Week. A few years ago
we found a stone, ridge tile, slate and
pottery scatter in our fieldwalking of a
field close to the House, which we
believe may be the gate house as it
lies on the line of a bank and ditch
visible in old aerial photos of the site.
We want to recover the plan of this
(assuming it really is a building!) and
section the bank and ditch. If this is
successful we may continue to
research the archaeology of Donington
in future years. The project is a 3-way
collaboration between LMAFG, Friends
of Donington and the County Council.
21st July. Archaeology Alive. This is the
principal
event
for
National
Archaeology Week at the Manor
House. The main aim of this event is to
showcase archaeological techniques
for the public. The event will, as far as
possible, be hands-on with people
handling material, or seeing experts in
action at close hand.
18th-19th August. The English Civil War
at Donington. The Society of the Open
Rope bring the 1640s to life.
9th September. 11.00-4.00. Medieval
Mayhem, the Manor House’s 11th. How
life changed from the 9th-15th centuries,
with 3 re-enactment groups.
BOSWORTH BATTLEFIELD CENTRE
All events 10.30-4.00, last entry 3.30,
unless stated. Charges apply, rates
vary. Tel. 01455 290429.
23rd-24th June. ‘History Alive’. Soldiers
encampment
(also
on
25th-27th
August).
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1st July. 2.30. Guided walk exploring
the battle (also on 5th August, 2nd
September).
7th-8th July. ‘Meet the Surgeon’.
4th-5th August. ‘Evolution of Armour’.
18th-19th August. 10.00-5.00. Summer
Medieval Festival. The traditional battle
re-enactment and other events. The
new Battle Exhibition at the Visitor
Centre will also be launched this
weekend.
9th September. 1.00-4.00. Free (charge
for car parking). Invited participants
only, open for spectators.
… AND OTHER VENUES
3rd July. 7.30. Talk: ‘The Leicestershire
and Rutland Landscape’, by John
Robinson,
Historic
Landscape
Characterisation Project Officer. Free,
but pre-booking essential. Tel. 0116
267 1377
John’s talk is part of the Community
Heritage
Initiative’s
Information
Sessions. Copies of the 2007 leaflets
are included with this newsletter in
mailings sent to Archaeological
Wardens.
CONTACTS AT LEICESTERSHIRE
COUNTY COUNCIL, ENVIRONMENT
AND HERITAGE SERVICES
The County Council’s archaeologists
are based at:
Room 500, County Hall, Leicester
Road, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8TE
KEEPER OF DONINGTON-LE-HEATH
MANOR HOUSE:
Peter Liddle (0116) 265 8326
email: pliddle@leics.gov.uk
ARCHAEOLOGY COLLECTIONS,
LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NETWORK:
Richard Pollard (0116) 265 8324
email: rpollard@leics.gov.uk
FINDS
LIAISON
OFFICER,
PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME
(archaeological finds identifications
service):
Wendy Scott (0116) 265 8325
email: wscott@leics.gov.uk
ARCHAEOLOGY STAFF IN THE
HISTORIC AND NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT TEAM
SENIOR PLANNING
ARCHAEOLOGIST:
Richard Clark (0116) 265 8322
email: riclark@leics.gov.uk
HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT RECORD
OFFICER
and
ASSISTANT
PLANNING ARCHAEOLOGIST:
Helen Wells (0116) 265 8323
email: hwells@leics.gov.uk
PLANNING ARCHAEOLOGIST:
Lucy Griffin (0016) 265 6217
e-mail lgriffin@leics.gov.uk
HISTORIC
LANDSCAPE
CHARACTERISATION OFFICER:
John Robinson (0116) 265 7035
email: jerobinson@leics.gov.uk
Fax (0116) 265 7965
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES
TEAM
Heritage Services
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LEICESTERSHIRE
COUNTY
COUNCIL
MUSEUMS
and
RESOURCES CENTRES
BOSWORTH
BATTLEFIELD
HERITAGE CENTRE
Sutton Cheney, near Market Bosworth,
Nuneaton CV13 0AD.
Undergoing
refurbishment: tel. (01455) 290429 for
information on reopening. Admission
charges will apply. Country Park and
waymarked paths are freely accessible
all year. Car parking £1.50 for the
Country Park and Heritage Centre.
CHARNWOOD MUSEUM
Queen’s Hall, Granby Street,
Loughborough, Leics LE11 3DU
Open Mon-Sat 10.00-4.30; Sun 2.005.00. Tel: (01509) 233754. FREE
COLLECTIONS
RESOURCE
CENTRE
Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire.
Tel: (01509) 815514. Guided visits by
appointment with the Site Manager,
Fred Hartley. Appointments to examine
collections should be made with the
relevant collection curator, but will
normally be between Mon-Thurs
10.00-3.30, and Fri 10.00-3.00.
Contact: Archaeology - Richard Pollard
(0116 265 8324 or 01509 815514); Art
and Costume - Philip Warren (01509
815514); Geology - Susan Cooke
(01509 233737); Home and Family Life
- Fiona Ure (01530 278442); Natural
Life - Tony Fletcher; Working Life Fred Hartley (both 01509 815514).
DONINGTON-LE-HEATH
MANOR
HOUSE
Manor Road, Donington-le-Heath,
Coalville, LE67 2FW. Open daily from
February through to end of November
at least, 11.00-4.00. Tel: (01530)
831259.
HOLLY HAYES ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE RESOURCES CENTRE
and
COMMUNITY
HERITAGE
INITIATIVE
216 Birstall Road, Birstall, Leicester,
LE4 4DG. Open Mon-Fri 10.00-4.00 by
appointment. Tel: (0116) 267 1950 and
267 0000 (Resources Centre) and 267
1377 (CHI).
HARBOROUGH MUSEUM
Council Offices, Adam and Eve Street,
Market Harborough, Leics.
LE16
7AG.:
Open Mon-Sat 10.00-4.30; Sun 2.005.00. Tel: (01858) 821085. FREE
MELTON CARNEGIE MUSEUM
Thorpe End, Melton Mowbray LE13
1RB. Open Daily 10.00-4.30. Tel:
(01664) 569946. FREE
THE
RECORD
OFFICE
FOR
LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER &
RUTLAND
Long Street, Wigston Magna, LE18
2AH.
Open Mon, Tues, Thurs 9.15-5.00;
Wed 9.15-7.30; Fri 9.15-4.45; Sat
9.15-12.15; closed on Suns. Tel:
(0116) 257 1080.
SNIBSTON DISCOVERY PARK
Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LN
April-Sept: open daily 10.00-5.00. OctMarch: Mon-Fri 10.00-3.00m; Sat &
Sun 10am - 5pm. Admission Adults
£6.00, Child £4.00, under 5's free;
Concessions £4.20; half price after
3pm. FREE entry to Fashion Gallery
after 3pm on Weds. Group discounts:
call for details. Tel: (01530) 278444.
There are many other museums and
historic buildings in Leicestershire and
Rutland open to the public, run by the
voluntary
sector
and
other
organisations.
Details should be
available at your local library or Tourist
Heritage Services
Room 500, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8TE
(0116) 265 8324 Fax:(0116) 265 7965
Information Centre. Contact Robin
Clarke, Leicestershire and Rutland
Museums Development Officer: (0116)
267 0050 e-mail: rclarke@leics.gov.uk
THIS NEWSLETTER HAS BEEN
PRODUCED
BY
THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SERVICES
TEAM FOR THE LEICESTERSHIRE
AND RUTLAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL
NETWORK
Heritage Services
Room 500, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8TE
(0116) 265 8324 Fax:(0116) 265 7965