English King Discovered Under Carpark September 13, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
***Dedicated to Roundj*** Beach does his very best not to be topical on this blog. But the news coming from Leicester (UK) yesterday is hard to ignore. At the end of August archaeologists began to dig in a car park there in search of the body of Richard III, the last English king to die […]
Roman Mosaics and Bras in 1930s Leicester June 6, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary
A busy day for Beach today – the hunt for mice, newspaper columns and the ongoing search for an aupair – and so he thought that he would just quote from this 1930s guide to Roman Britain for a strange archaeological visit. Leicester, for those who don’t know it, is a rather frightening English Midland […]
