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Abstract

Welcome to Issue 4 of Digging Deeper. This year marks an important anniversary in Leicester’s archaeology; 80 years ago, in 1939, an archaeologist called Kathleen Kenyon completed the first excavation of Roman Leicester. This was an important point in the city’s archaeology. Before this, over the previous 250 years, antiquaries were making chance discoveries of Roman artefacts, mosaics and other bits of Roman buildings, but these finds were often poorly recorded and not well understood.