During nicer weather we like to be outdoors as much as possible. If we’re not doing fieldwork or a field trip we like to do a mix of fun activities covering all sorts of archaeological and historical themes and periods. When its winter we move indoors, often borrowing the laboratories at the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Learning how to survey with a replica Roman groma 
Learning how to survey with a modern survey equipment. 
Creating illuminated medieval manuscripts. 
Making Terracotta Warriors. 
Creating cave paintings in candle light. 
Creating cave paintings in candle light. 
Designing Roman mosaics. 
DNA Lab with Professor Turi King. 
Extracting DNA from a banana. 
Bone Lab looking at the University of Leicester’s animal skeleton collection.
Recent activities have included prehistoric cave painting (in the dark in a ‘real’ cave light only by candle light), designing Roman mosaics, making Terracotta Warriors, trying our hand at illuminating medieval manuscripts, map making, artefact drawing and surveying with replica Roman equipment.
We also like to get busy in the lab learning about archaeological science. Our Bone Lab, looking at the University of Leicester’s animal skeleton collection with Professor Richard Thomas, is hugely popular. As is our DNA Lab, which takes a closer look at DNA and how it helps archaeologists understand the past with Professor Turi King (the geneticist who worked on Richard III’s DNA). We run both regularly as well as Lab sessions looking at forensic facial reconstruction, pottery identification, family history and much more.
Leicestershire Young Archaeologists' Club 