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NETWORK NEWS
The newsletter of the Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeological Network
NUMBER 30: March 2006
MEMBERSHIP
Response to the appeal in Network
News 29 for Wardens who have never
returned a Data Protection Act
Consent Form to contact the Network
co-ordinator has been muted. The next
stage in ascertaining whether these
Wardens still reside at the last address
reported to the co-ordinator, and still
wish to be an Archaeological Warden,
will be to write to the Parish Councils
and Meetings.
Wardens to whom this applies will find
a final appeal for a letter or Consent
Form confirming their wishes and, if
they still want to be the warden, their
address.
WARDENS JOIN THE IFA
Congratulations
to
Kate
Don,
Archaeological Warden for Market
Overton, who has been accepted into
the Institute of Field Archaeologists at
the Affiliate grade. Kate joins Brian
Verity (Rothley) and Graham Aldred
(Bagworth & Thornton) in the Institute.
The IFA's stated aims are summarised
as 'We advance the practice of
archaeology and allied disciplines by
promoting professional standards and
ethics for conserving, managing,
understanding
and
promoting
enjoyment of the heritage'.
The IFA is open to all archaeologists,
paid and unpaid, who agree to abide
by its Code of conduct. This Code is
divided into five Principles, which
between them have no less than 38
Rules, far too long a document to be
reproduced here.
The Affiliate category is aimed at
amateurs
who
lack
formal
qualifications
and
appropriate
experience. Although neither it nor the
Student category carry voting rights,
there are tangible benefits, not least of
which
is
the
newsletter
'The
Archaeologist', and its discourses on
wide ranging matters both academic
and, in the broad sense, political.
If you are interested in the IFA, check
the website, www.archaeologists.net ,
or contact the Network co-ordinator,
Richard Pollard, who is a Member.
THE HALLATON
GROUP
FIELD
WORK
Congratulations are also due to the
Hallaton Group, which has received a
grant from the Local Heritage Initiative
for a geophysical survey of the parish
of Hallaton.
The Group is holding a meeting in the
Stenning Hall on Wednesday 22nd
March at 8:00pm, which unfortunately
will have passed by the time most
readers get this newsletter. Interested
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THE RESTORATION OF KIRBY
MUXLOE CASTLE
Valerie Knott Archaeological Warden
for Kirby Muxloe, with thanks to
Gurdev Singh, English Heritage project
manager.
English Heritage began work on the
restoration of Kirby Muxloe Castle in
the spring of 2004. Built over 500
years ago in 1481 by William, Lord
Hastings, the condition of the
brickwork has been deteriorating and
many bricks were beginning to crumble
away, especially in the walls of the
castle just below the waterline in the
moat.
The work is being carried out by a firm
of specialist conservation builders from
Shropshire and the project is being
overseen by Mr. Gurdev Singh from
English Heritage who kindly showed us
the current work being carried out on
the site. The first phase of the work
was the restoration of the gatehouse,
which is now complete and has
involved replacing over 11,000 badly
eroded bricks with handcrafted bricks
made in Suffolk. Care has been taken
to match the existing red brickwork and
the original pattern of black bricks
created by the masons in the walls of
the old castle. In order to replace
bricks below the waterline of both the
gatehouse and southwest tower the
moat had to be drained, just as it was
in 1913 when work was carried out to
repair the castle and build the bridge
which provided access to the castle
across the moat. The present bridge
will be replaced in the third phase of
restoration, and will provide disabled
access to the castle and an improved
pathway down to the bridge.
It is interesting that the cost of building
the original brick castle was just over
£1,000 but restoration work alone has
already cost £200,000 in work on the
gatehouse, £100,000 on the southwest
tower and a further £250,000 is
needed to rebuild the bridge and
provide better access.
The second phase of work being
carried out is to the southwest tower
and is nearing completion. The
brickwork here in the tower has also
been replaced and the original
chimneys, which were found to be
badly cracked, have undergone careful
restoration. Work is also being carried
out to deter the many pigeons which
have made the tower their home and
who have created a great deal of mess
with their droppings. A mesh has been
placed over the roof to prevent them
nesting on the battlements and grills
have been placed over the open
windows to prevent them getting into
the tower. New oak doors matching the
original doors to the castle will be fitted
in the doorways.
Careful restoration has been carried
out on the doorjambs in the tower,
replicating the original work done to
shape the bricks by the skilled
stonemasons of the fifteenth century.
Rather than use machines to shape
the bricks, a master mason, who is the
country’s leading restorer, was brought
in to train the present bricklayers in
how to shape the bricks using brick
axes similar to those used by the
original masons. The staircases have
also been repaired and a new limebased scree floor is to be laid in the
tower thus restoring many of the
features of the original building.
Once the work on the tower has been
finished, the third phase to drain the
moat and replace the bridge will begin.
The new bridge will be built of oak and
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will be slightly higher giving disabled
access, avoiding the steps up into the
castle entrance. Part of the original
medieval timber bridge was discovered
lying in the mud at the bottom of the
moat when this was drained during the
first phase and is now displayed in the
gatehouse.
English Heritage, as well as restoring
the castle, is working with the local
fishing club to improve facilities for
fishing by building platforms on the
banks of the moat thus preventing
erosion of the banks of the moat.
Once all the work has been completed,
hopefully in Summer 2006, the castle
can be re-opened to the public who will
then be able to appreciate the careful
restoration work that has been carried
out. In the meantime, Mr. Singh has
kindly offered to show round anyone
interested in having a closer look at the
restoration work for themselves and he
can be contacted at English Heritage,
East Midlands Branch, Northampton
[contact details in Archaeological and
Heritage Wardens’ Information Packs].
[Editor’s footnote: many objects found
during the 1913 draining of the moat
are on loan to Leicestershire’s
museums service, together with some
donated bricks cut out during the
present restoration. These objects may
be viewed by appointment with
Richard Pollard.]
THE
LIFE
OF
A
MELTON
FIELDWORKER
Jenny Allsop, Archaeological and
Heritage Warden for Clawson, Hose
and Harby
[In this article, Jenny describes her
work as an Archaeological Warden;
the Heritage Warden part of her
activities is more wide ranging,
including wildlife surveys and talks.]
As leader of the Melton Fieldworkers
Archaeological Group, I have been
involved in excavation, fieldwalking
and watching briefs for nearly twenty
years. The Heritage Warden scheme
has provided an opportunity to widen
my area of interest, and made me
more aware of the importance of the
built/natural environment within the
landscape/townscape.
It is hoped that, in the future, parish
projects could be set up to involve
people in garden surveys [as has
happened in Leire and Great Bowden
– Ed.] and report the presence of
building remains or archaeological
finds on the surface of their gardens.
Archaeological watching briefs can be
either requested officially to fulfil a
planning condition imposed by the
District Council [or the Diocesan
equivalent, a Faculty condition], or
unofficially, at the request of the
owner, builder or developer. All finds,
structures etc. are reported to
Leicestershire’s museums service and
each, even if negative, is entered on
the Historic Environment Record [as
the Sites and Monuments Record is
now called]. With local knowledge,
Wardens are encouraged to contact
the
County
Council’s
Planning
Archaeologists should a planning
application in their area require some
kind of investigation/condition.
No official watching briefs were
conducted by me in my parish during
2005, this being mainly at my request
since most of the developers/builders
are
unwilling
to
co-operate.
Unofficially, I have continued watching
the alterations to the Village Shop in
Long Clawson, and trenches dug by
the utility companies and local
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authority
Highways
Departments.
These trenches have often provided
clues to cobbled pathways and old
house foundations although very few
artefacts are found.
Outside of my parish, my major official
project in 2005 was a watching brief at
the request of the Diocese, in
Wymondham Churchyard, on the
installation of utilities pipeline, insertion
of the pipes through the tower wall,
and a small excavation inside the
church tower.
Unofficial work away from Clawson
Parish included work at the Burton
Lazars leper hospital site. I conducted
three tours of the hospital earthworks
and provided exhibition boards for a
village local history weekend. A further
phase of licensed geophysical survey
of the ancient monument in 2006 is
planned in conjunction with the
Grantham Archaeological Group.
Together with two wardens in Melton
Mowbray, I have been contributing to
the conservation, listing, and in some
extreme cases recording, buildings of
historic architectural importance which
have been allocated for demolition or
redevelopment. This has included
photographic
recording
and,
in
particular, the measurement and
studies of building materials and
specific features which, together with
local studies and maps, enable as
close a date as possible to be
ascertained for the erection of the
building. Together, through the Melton
Civic Society we have managed to
record much of Melton’s history before
it is lost and these records will be
lodged with the relevant local
authorities.
The Melton Fieldworkers are often
asked by the local media to comment
on local events. We also receive
numerous requests to assist with
enquiries via the Library, Carnegie
Museum, Melton Borough Council and
Tourist Information Centre on local and
family history matters. Many of the
planning applications received by the
Borough Council are also commented
on by the Group. Representing the
Melton Fieldworkers, I attended the
launch of the East Midlands Blue
Plaque scheme in Nottingham. An
illustrated talk on the history of Melton
Mowbray was given to the Polish and
Dutch Twinning visitors over the
weekend of the Melton Food Fair in
October. It was part of a series of talks
about different aspects of the town and
the weekend was a great success,
forging new links with Poland which
have already led to potentially new
export outlets for Stilton Cheese and
other local products.
LEICESTERSHIRE AND DESERTED
MEDIEVAL VILLAGE STUDIES
Derived from “Salon-IFA news 131”,
edited by Christopher Catling
The death of
Professor Maurice
Beresford in December 2005 brought
to public attention the key roIe that a
Leicestershire site played in the
genesis of studies of “DMVs”.
Christoper Catling writes in Salon-IFA
news 131 that ‘In an obituary published
in The Guardian on 22 December
2005, Christopher Dyer, FSA, PIFA,
described Maurice Beresford as “a
historian on the trail of England's lost
villages”, and said that it was in 1945
that “the young warden of an adult
education centre in Rugby was making
a plan of the visible traces of medieval
fields at Bittesby, in Leicestershire. He
came to an area of irregular grasscovered mounds and hollows and,
after initial puzzlement, realised he
was looking at the remains of streets
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and houses from the village
Bittesby, abandoned for 450 years.
of
“This discovery, followed by the
recognition of hundreds of other
deserted villages, began the academic
career of Maurice Beresford ... [whose]
book, The Lost Villages of England
(1954), argued that they were
depopulated because of the expansion
of sheep farming, the enclosure of
fields, and the eviction of villagers by
acquisitive landlords.”’
Professor Beresford went on to
excavate for forty-plus years at
Wharram Percy, on the Yorkshire
Wolds, with the late John Hurst. Sadly,
half of the area of the Bittesby DMV
earthworks was ploughed in 1953.
The earthworks remaining on the other
half are a Scheduled Ancient
Monument.
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
AND
EVENTS AT DONINGTON-LE-HEATH
MANOR HOUSE
“The
Vikings
in
Leicestershire”
exhibition is on display until 26th April.
It will be replaced by the Leicestershire
Calligraphers’ Annual Exhibition (28th
April - 4th July). The Vikings exhibition
is going to Melton Carnegie Museum in
July, and then to Harborough Museum
in September, with a changed set of
objects on display each time.
Peter Liddle will give a talk on “The Big
Roman Dig and the Archaeology of SE
Leicestershire” (5th April, 7.30pm)
… AND AT OTHER VENUES
Battle of Bosworth 1485 Guided Walks
take place on 2nd April and 7th May at
2.30pm at the Battlefield Visitor
Centre, which also hosts a Wars of the
Roses Living History Camp from 15th-17th April, from 29th April to 1st May, on
13th-14th May, and on 29th May (ring
01455 290429 for details and
charges).
An exhibition of clocks from the County
collection will be held at Harborough
Museum from 4th April to 3rd July.
Charnwood Museum features an
exhibition on Beacon Hill from 28th
April to 25th June, featuring the art of
Bryan Page.
A selection of historic maps will be
displayed at the Record Office from 2nd
May to 2nd June.
VIRTUAL WATERWAYS
The new on-line database of 60,000
waterways records went live on 16th
February 2006. Anyone with an
interest in industrial heritage, the
evolution of the canal system or in
family history will be able to search
through more than 60,000 waterways
records from the 17th century to the
near present day.
The completion of the Waterways
Virtual Archive marks a major
milestone for The Waterways Trust in
opening up access to its collection.
The website has been made possible
with funding from the Heritage Lottery
Fund and British Waterways, and is at
www.virtualwaterways.co.uk .
NOT A MILLION MILES AWAY:
Anglo-Saxon angel carving found at
Lichfield Cathedral
From “Salon-IFA news 135”, edited by
Christopher Catling
An eighth-century limestone panel,
which retains much of its painted
decoration, has been found during
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excavations at Lichfield Cathedral. The
panel might have formed part of the
shrine of St Chad, Bishop of the
Mercians. St Chad was buried in the
church that underlies the cathedral in
the late seventh century. His tomb
became a place of pilgrimage,
according to Bede, and the angel could
have come from one end of the shrine,
perhaps
forming
part
of
an
Annunciation scene.
The carving emerged from the
cathedral's nave during an excavation
of the site preceding the installation of
a rising platform. Warwick Rodwell,
FSA, consultant archaeologist to
Lichfield Cathedral, told The Times
that, just as the workmen were packing
up after six weeks' work, 'someone let
out a scream, and there it was, among
some stone slabs'.
Dr Rodwell went on to say: 'The panel
is unparalleled in this country - and
indeed on the Continent - for the
amount of original paint which
survives. Nothing like it has been
found since the Victorian age.'
The angel, which is just over 2ft
(635mm) high, will go on display in the
cathedral until the end of March; it will
then undergo conservation work before
going on permanent display.
HERITAGE LINK
The following four articles are lifted
from the e-mail newsletter “Heritage
Link Update”.
Heritage Link Update is sent to
members and supporters of Heritage
Link as a way of sharing information of
relevance to the historic environment
sector. Archaeological and Heritage
Wardens who would like to receive
Heritage Link Updates are invited to email the Archaeological Network co-
ordinator, Richard Pollard. E-mail
addresses will then be added to a
Distribution List; please note that this
does mean that your e-mail address
will appear on the e-mail sent to
everyone who is on the List.
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF RURAL
CHURCHES
A summary of conclusion from the
Victorian Society’s conference held in
York in November is now available.
‘How do we save our church buildings’,
a frequently posed question these
days, suggested better funding, more
community involvement, a rethinking of
the
redundancy
process,
and
increased
partnerships
between
heritage bodies and the Church of
England as the key to ensuring the
future of rural church buildings.
Over 100 delegates attended the two
day
conference,
which
brought
together clergy, lay people, and
heritage professionals from across
England and Wales. Drawing on the
example of the Sykes churches, a
collection of 17 listed churches in East
Yorkshire villages, speakers examined
the issues facing people who care for
church buildings across both countries.
For a copy of the summary contact
Ann Morgan, Community Engagement
Officer,
at
community@victoriansociety.org.uk or
tel 020 8747 5897.
PEVSNER ON LINE
The entire 48 hardback county
volumes and paperback city guides in
The Buildings of England series is now
searchable as a database of over
550,000 records, and available from
December 2005 on CD-ROM, and
from
Spring
2006
by
online
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subscription
at
http://www.pevsnerindex.co.uk/ - the
second and updated edition of the CDROM published by Oxford University
Press in 1995. The 6 volumes covering
London have been added since 1995,
along with revised versions of 6 other
county volumes, and 5 of the newly
published paperback city guides.
The database can be installed on
Windows (98 and upwards), Mac
(OSX) or Linux, along with a search
engine
containing
features
not
available before, and an up-to-theminute user interface with online
documentation. It does not attempt to
replace the books - the text is
summarized
and page-references
provided - but acts as a general index
to the series, offering three main
search methods (Type, Site and
Name) supported by a variety of other
searchable fields. The vast majority of
personal names mentioned in the text
can be retrieved. Searches may range
from the widest and most powerful
(nationwide datasets), to the most
precise (single site survey). Crossreference tables help you find
particular terms or sites without
difficulty. Results can be resorted to
your own specifications and saved to
disk for editing or printing.
Prices (inclusive of VAT and p&p) vary
from £200 to £75 according to user.
For further information, orders and
payment contact Mike Good, email
mikegood@ntlworld.com , tel 01223
316382.
VOLUNTEERS
WORKSHOPS
AND
THE
LAW
Volunteering England announces a
series of half-day workshops to be run
by Mark Restall, Senior Information
Officer at Volunteering England, and
author of the publication Volunteers
and the Law. All workshops are free.
Registration will be at 10.00am and the
session will run until 12.30 pm. A light
lunch and refreshments will also be
served. They take place in Warwick on
6th April; Lancaster on 25th April; and
York on 9th May.
For
venues
see
www.volunteeringengland.org.uk If you
would like to reserve a place, e-mail
events@volunteeringengland.org, with
your full name, organisation name, job
title, address, telephone number, email address and the name of the
location which you would like to attend.
THE
‘SELFISH
REPORT
VOLUNTEER’
Volunteers are becoming more selfish
and are not prepared to do the
mundane jobs that paid staff will not
do, according to a new report by
consultancy nfpSynergy.
The report, 21st Century Volunteer,
commissioned
by
the
Scout
Association, claims a new breed of
‘selfish’ volunteer has emerged –
people who are just as interested in
what they can get out of the
experience as what they can put in.
Such volunteers are looking for
qualifications to put on their CVs, or
hoping to improve their skills or meet
new people. The report argues that,
just as no one would expect someone
to take a paid job without looking at the
salary, volunteers should not be
expected to give their time without
thinking about what they can gain.
The report concludes: ‘A single theme
that runs through all our trends and
ideas concerning the future of
volunteering is that ‘volunteers are
doing it for themselves’. Volunteers will
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increasingly want to know what is in it
for them.’ It suggests more thought
should be given to how volunteers are
managed.
Dr Justin Davis Smith, deputy chief
executive of Volunteering England,
believes it is wrong to describe the
new breed of volunteer as selfish. ‘I
would not use the word ‘selfish’, he
said, ‘but I agree that we need to get
away from the idea of volunteering as
a gift and see it more as a transaction’.
The think tank also warned that
although there has been a rise in
middle
class,
educated
‘brain’
volunteers, the charity sector is
struggling to find what it calls ‘brawn
volunteers’ with much needed practical
skills such as plumbing and building.
Free copies of the report are available
if
you
register
at
http://www.nfpsynergy.net/freereports/
COINS FROM BRADGATE PARK
Assiduous readers of the Leicester
Mercury will have seen an article in the
7th February issue on two coins found
by a young man near the ruins of
Bradgate House by “digging in the
mud” after tripping up. These were
identified by the Archaeological
Services Team, from photographs, as
Tudor pennies. We have now seen the
coins first hand, and are certain that
they are replicas, which apparently are
on sale at the Park shop.
The story is a cautionary tale. The
young man found them on the Park,
and two years later reported them to
the Leicester Mercury when he thought
that they might be valuable. The first
problem here is that he did not have
permission to remove them from the
Park (he should have handed them in
to the Park authorities), and may well
have broken the law twicefold if they
came from the Scheduled area of the
15th century ruins, as it is illegal to
disturb the ground within, and remove
archaeological
objects
from
a
Scheduled Ancient Monument without
a licence.
The second problem is that, once he
realised
they might
be worth
something he should have contacted
the Finds Liaison Officer, the police, or
the coroner, not the local paper. Finds
of two or more silver or gold coins (ten
or more of base metals) in the same
place must be reported as potential
Treasure, and must be reported to one
of these authorities within fourteen
days.
Many people confuse the right of
access to land such as “public”
footpaths and parks and “access” land
with the right to prospect for, and take
possession of, objects found on the
land.
The landowner, be they private
individual, trust, company or public
authority, should be approached for
permission to search for and remove
material from footpaths, parks and
common land.
The major new “right of access” to
walk freely across mapped “access
land” is enshrined in the Countryside
and Rights of Way Act 2000, and
completed across England in 2005.
The right of access does not permit the
use of a metal detector, nor the
removal of anything from the area
(information from a Countryside
Information leaflet dated October 2005:
for
details
see
www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk ).
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A new Code of Practice for
Responsible Metal Detecting in
England and Wales is shortly to be
distributed by the Department of
Culture, Media and Sport. Endorsed
by, amongst others, the National
Council for Metal Detecting and the
Federation
of
Independent
Detectorists, the Code comprises
thirteen actions that should be
undertaken before, during and after
detecting. It is hoped that copies will
be sent to Archaeological and Heritage
Wardens once they are available.
MILESTONE
STOLEN
LOST:
BELIEVED
Wardens are invited to keep a close
watch on any historic milestones that
they are aware of, following the
apparent theft of a 250 year old
example from the A5 (Watling Street)
at Smockington Hollow near High
Cross. The stone was one of about a
dozen
examples
remaining
in
Leicestershire, and disappeared in or
before 2005. Officials from the
Highways
Agency
are
reported
(Leicester Mercury, January 5th 2006)
to have said that the only explanation
must be that it was stolen. The stone
bore the distance to London and
nearby towns. The loss was first
noticed by Greg Drozdz of the Wolvey
Archaeological Society, who reported it
to Leicestershire County Council. The
High Cross area is famous for its
Monument to the Roman settlement at
the crossroads of Watling Street and
the Fosse Way, Sadly, none of the four
parishes in the area – Claybrooke
Magna, Claybrooke Parva, Sjarnford,
and Wigston Parva - has appointed an
Archaeological or Heritage Warden.
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
Fax (0116) 265 7965
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES
TEAM
KEEPER OF ARCHAEOLOGY, also
FIELD SURVEY, FIELDWORK
GROUP:
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
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
(DONINGTON-LE-HEATH):
Richard Knox (0116) 265 8327
email: rknox@leics.gov.uk
FINDS
LIASON
OFFICER,
PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME,
and
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
IDENTIFICATIONS SERVICE:
Wendy Scott (0116) 265 8325
email: wscott@leics.gov.uk
YOUNG ARCHAEOLOGISTS CLUB:
Pete Liddle (0116) 265 8326
ARCHAEOLOGY STAFF IN THE
HISTORIC AND NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT TEAM
SENIOR PLANNING
ARCHAEOLOGIST:
Richard Clark (0116) 265 8322
email: riclark@leics.gov.uk
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HISTORIC
ENVIRONMENT
RECORDS OFFICER / PLANNING
ARCHAEOLOGIST:
Helen Wells (0116) 265 8323
email: hwells@leics.gov.uk
LEICESTERSHIRE
COUNCIL MUSEUMS
COUNTY
CHARNWOOD MUSEUM
Queen’s Hall, Granby Street,
Loughborough, Leics LE11 3DU
Open 10.00-4.30 Mon-Sat; 2.00-5.00
Sun. Tel: (01509) 233754. Keeper:
Susan Cooke.
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 10.00-3.30 MonThurs, and 10.00-3.00 Fri. Contact:
Archaeology - Richard Pollard (0116
264 5803 or 01509 815514); Art and
Costume - Philip Warren (01509
815514); Geology - Susan Cooke
(01509 233754); Home and Family Life
- Fiona Ure (01530 278442); Natural
Life - Tony Fletcher; Working Life Fred Hartley (both 01509 815514).
HARBOROUGH MUSEUM
Council Offices, Adam and Eve Street,
Market Harborough, Leics.
LE16
7AG.:
Open 10.00-4.30 Mon-Sat; 2.00-5.00
Sun. Tel: (01858) 821085. Keeper:
Zara Matthews.
MELTON CARNEGIE MUSEUM
Thorpe End, Melton Mowbray LE13
1RB. Open 10.00-4.30 Daily. Tel:
(01664) 569946.
Keeper:
Jenny
Dancey.
THE
RECORD
OFFICE
FOR
LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER &
RUTLAND
Long Street, Wigston Magna, LE18
2AH.
Open 9.15-5.00 Mon, Tues, Thurs;
9.15-7.30 Wed; 9.15-4.45 Fri; 9.1512.15 Sat; closed on Suns. Tel: (0116)
257 1080.
County Archivist:
Carl
Harrison.
SNIBSTON DISCOVERY PARK
Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LN
Open daily 10am - 5 pm from April 1st
(weekdays 10-3 until then). Admission
Adults £6.00, Child £4.00, under 5's
free; Concessions £4.20; half price
after 3pm. Group discounts: call for
details. Tel: (01530) 278444. Curator:
vacant post.
DONINGTON-LE-HEATH
MANOR
HOUSE
Manor Road, Donington-le-Heath,
Coalville, LE67 2FW. Open 7 days a
week from February through to end of
November at least, 11 am - 4 pm, Tel:
(01530) 831259.
Keeper: Peter
Liddle.
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 log on
to www.lrmf.org.uk .
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESOURCES
CENTRE (HOLLY HAYES)
216 Birstall Road, Birstall, Leicester,
LE4 4DG. Open 10.00-4.00 Mon-Fri by
appointment. Tel: (0116) 267 0000.
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