In this month’s instalment from Coventry Charterhouse we move clockwise around the footprint of the former monastery and move from the eastern range of cells to the southern range. Site director, Andrew McLeish tells us more… While geophysical survey can often give us an idea of what might be under the ground it has its…
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Coventry Charterhouse – If you want answers dig holes!
We return to the Coventry Charterhouse and in this blog, site director Andrew McLeish takes a look at the (re)excavation of two of the monks’ houses on the eastern range of cells in the summer of 2020 and how archaeology has progressed in forty years. The title of this particular post I can attribute to…
Coventry Charterhouse – The World Is Your Oyster
In our second blog from Coventry Charterhouse, site director Andrew McLeish and environmental archaeologist William Johnson introduce us to an often-overlooked aspect of archaeological projects but one which can contribute greatly to them… In our last blog we talked about the discoveries made during the excavation of the area forming the extension to the new…
Coventry Charterhouse – a project in retrospect
With our excavation at Leicester Cathedral now finished, we are going to move away from Leicestershire and focus on another National Lottery Heritage Funded project that we have been involved with, the Coventry Charterhouse. This is the first of a series of blogs over the forthcoming months which will catching you up on our excavations…
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