One of ULAS’s first major excavations was a large multi-period site at Eye Kettleby near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. A new book detailing the important Anglo-Saxon discoveries is soon to be released. To celebrate this, Dr Gavin Speed, Project Manager at ULAS, looks back at the equally significant prehistoric discoveries from the site. Mesolithic and…
Tag: Mesolithic
Flint knife found near Asfordby
Recent fieldwork near Asfordby in north-east Leicestershire has recovered a significant assemblage of seventy-four worked flints, including forty tools; comprising cores, scrapers and piercers. The remainder of the assemblage was made up of flakes, some of which had been retouched. One noteworthy find was an unusual scale-flaked knife (which coincidentally resembles a leaf-shaped arrowhead). The…
ULAS News 