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This was great! I had been looking for a video like this just on the friary.

I have so many fond memories and formative experiences with ULAS. I studied archaeology at Leicester in the early 2000s' and owe my career to you guys. I'm now based in Australia and work extensively in Papua New Guinea. Not so much muddy glory as sweaty glory. Love you guys, keep up the good work! Can't wait to see what you've found in 2024. Big shout out to Nick Cooper. Legend.

Three year? No comments? Thank you for the video.

You guys need to petition to knock down the holiday Inn and excavation properly under that. The temple of Mythras is surely something that's hiding some secrets. Disgusting that that ring road was allowed to be built through that section.

Very interesting. Crazy that 99% of history has been lost.

Really interesting and thorough. Thank you!

Terrific talk!

Good work. Thank you

Insanely fascinating - well done to all involved.

Fantastic information. Thank you

Powerful. No verbal comment just the artifact speaking for itself!

I hope there will be a day when Lencastrians recognize the enormous importance of John of Gaunt, as one of the most important leaders in English history. He prevailed the country over his own candidacy for monarch.

What a shame....the described slides would have made more sense in the presentation- if they had been visible. If this presentation gets better please can someone let me know. Hearing that I can see the shield whilst being excavated when what I can see is a regional context plan has stretched my patience too far - such a disappointment.

How interesting. I really enjoyed this.

At the time, Richard 111 was all about the battle. Leicester City was suddenly world news. It highlighted how the king s story was such a huge world story. Thus it became an argument who owned his remains. It certainly made our city world wide news.

As a citizen from Leicester, regular snippets of historic stories about the King regularly appeared in the Mercury. Also, the roman parts of the city. When the remains were located, then, it all became an international event. i

What a metal detector would have found back in 1200!!.........

J.RR Tolkien would have loved the finding of RichardIII

Another aspect of Henry VII's evil doings is the suffering the people endured after Franciscan monasteries were destroyed. The Franciscans were known to create their own herbal healing methods. They took in anyone who needed healing/medical care, prayers, and laying of hands. You did not need to donate to them for this care (which they performed as long as you needed at no charge). It was those who had means who donated money, supporting the Friars Minor. Imagine the suffering? The friars were killed, along with their recipes for herbal remedies. Greed and power. The entire Tudor reign was filled with blood. Henry VIII alone killed up to 72,000 of his own people. Then, throw in Henry Tudor, Bloody Mary and Elizabeth.

Really appreciate these videos presented by you, Mathew Morris. Incredibly interesting!

Glad to see that folks in the UK are studing oysters at last. I did simimilar studies with the American Oyster in the 1980s and 1990s. in the US. I also evamined oysters from a neolithic site in Italy.

Such a well presented talk. I am.an armchair amateur enthusiast of archeology and have never visited Leicester. Your talk has brought some of its history alive

The cities scale today is due to mass immigration, but he dare not admit it!

IMO Henry 8 and even more so Cromwell did an huge disservice to the entire county erasing monasteries. So much history demolished and lost.

I dug with the Field Unit in the late 1970s and early 1980s on sites including Bond Street, Blackfriars, Norfolk Street as well as out in the County at Sproxton, as well as post excavation at the Humberstone Annex. I knew Jean, Terry, Patrick (Cass), Richard, John, etc well at the time. I subsequently moved away from Leicester, digging in Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Northants and Hampshire. Nice to see my sites in context of what has been excavated since my time.

This is so interesting, thank you so much. Now the news is out, I saw it on the BBC today How exciting.

It always saddens me to think of all of the history that was lost due to the dissolution. It's amazing that 500 years later these places can be identified & found. Thank you for the wonderful work you & your team have done.

I wish I became an Archaeologist 🥲 it's so easy.

Proud to be from Leicestershire. I'd love more information on the Swithland wood slate quarries.

Thanks for making these videos.

The Dominican convent in Montargis (which you mispronounced) where Aliénor d'Angleterre/Eleanor, Countess of Leicester died, was closed down following the French revolution. With the arrival of the railway in the town, the convent was completely demolished to make way for the railway station. Finding her grave as well as those of anyone else buried there won't be very easy. The convent was founded by Amicie de Montfort.

Not wise to schedule it, should of moved the mosaic to a museum, You got lucky there in my oppinion as a lot of farmers would of destroyed the evidence on fear of having their farm scheduled and potential loss of future lucrative building permission and land devaluation . Saving one might of destroyed two others. These museums could build a steel structured mezzanine floor to display them or create a cut out in the concrete floor in a museum and put thick glass over the top so visitors can walk over it.

Could a harder type wood be cut into a spear point then lightly charred to harden making an effective point? Just another possibility to try. I think it would be interesting and harder to recover proof of... lol sorry

i think some these greyfriars monks were knights in the wars of the roses, presuming they were it must of been quite alarming to residents nearby when a load of charging monks left for battle like Thornton abbey.Probably why Richard was quickly buried as these warrior monks were targets for the new monarchy. A nice informative video.

For Richard III's body, would it be possible that someone might have disturbed the grave prior to modern times hence why's he's propped up like that (like if someone tried to move the grave over and over, causing his body to prop up due to the motion?), although that seems very unlikely I know. Excellent work!

Time Team had a guest huntsman who discussed "unmaking" a deer. Boars were hunted... maybe the ritual was the same?

It always boggles my mind that the Roman’s pulled out of Britain 400 years before the Vikings came. Romano-Britain seems closer to us in many ways than the medieval period.

Perhaps the forelegs were given to living dogs. Seasonally it would fit hunting season beginning. That is in assuming they hunted with their dogs, any feasting or celebration would honor/bless the dogs. Look how well hunting dogs have it today lol

Thanks so much for posting this!

I’ve been really fortunate !!!!! Understatement of the century !!!

I would like to point out (for the umpteenth time) that Franciscans are friars, not monks. In a friary there usually is a cloister, but friars are NOT cloistered, they go outside and preach or do all kinds of pastoral work. They live in a convent or friary, they are not a contemplative order. They do not live in a monastery.

So much for Richard’s alabaster tomb. (Glaringly obvious he was unceremoniously dumped into a hastily dug hole in the ground)

These programs are so fascinating and informative.

Comprehensive and entertaining. Thank you

Dowsing? 😶 Every now and again I am reminded that Archaeology resides in the Humanities, not the Sciences. That said, I very much enjoyed this presentation.

Thank you Vicki that was very interesting.

So frustrating to watch, so many slides are missing.

Could the mosaic in the collapsed hypercourse area be the tiled floor just falling in?

One of my distant grandfather's was the Governor of Leicester castle mid 12th century. Sure he was just a peach