Archaeology Day at Bradgate Park

A team from Leicester University's Archaeology Department has been investigating Bradgate Park, which lies some 10 miles northwest of Leicester.

Using LiDAR and then walking the site, the team have unearthed some exciting remains. A stone chipping site dating from the Cresswellian of the Upper Palaeolithic, a large Medieval building thought to be high status and probably built at the turn of the 13th-14th centuries, Roman pottery and a musket ball.

The photo shows a party of people being introduced to the remains of the Medieval building, which lies around 400 yards from the ruins of Bradgate House, the birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for just nine days before her head was cut off.

Old John is visible on the crest of the hill above.

Basil and I met Clive and Elaine there. Elaine did a degree in archaeology at Leicester on returning from overseas.

Looking forward to 'The Flying Dutchman,' by Wagner, in Nottingham tonight.

My other photo is of a fallow deer trying to hide in the grass, possibly to try and keep bothersome flies off its head.