We're here in Bradgate Park because this is where the University of Leicester
holds its archaeological field school.
We've been excavating in the park now for five years with our students
and are trying to uncover the history of the park
and understand how people have engaged with this landscape over the last 15 thousand years.
Research is absolutely fundamental to all excavation.
We don't excavate for no reason we excavate to answer particular questions,
to understand something about the past and that makes it for a fantastic teaching exercise
because not only are our students learning all the skills to be an archaeologist
but they're also learning about, how that links to answering fundamental research questions
and telling the story, adding something,
contributing something to knowledge that we didn't know before.
So the excavations here in Bradgate Park are just one example
of the kinds of field school we run within the University of Leicester
and students going on excavate on lots of different sites
and get lots of fabulous experience of different kinds of archaeology.
