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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The Charterhouse Project: Some final discoveries
Work at Charterhouse is finished for now and analysis of the results is underway. The large quantities of artefacts we recovered are being cleaned and examined by experts at the University of Leicester and the results from the trenches are being investigated. The excavation has shed light on the functioning of the Carthusian monastery and…
The Charterhouse Project: The dig so far…
We are halfway through our dig at the Coventry Charterhouse, and despite some rather difficult weather conditions, fascinating new insights into this Carthusian monastery are being revealed. Excavation supervisor Richard Huxley tells us what the dig has revealed so far… The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St Bruno, was founded in the Chartreuse…
The Charterhouse Project: An Introduction
In March 2019, a team of archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services began a project to learn more about Coventry’s Cathusian Monastery, St Anne’s Charterhouse. The work is in partnership with the Historic Coventry Trust, Coventry City Council and Historic England, and is made possible with the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Excavation supervisor Richard…
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