Work's been quite funny today. I'm in a team of four people at work - me (Historic Environment Record Officer/Assistant Planning Archaeologist), Lucy (Planning Archaeologist), John (Historic Landscape Characterisation Officer) and Richard (Senior Planning Archaeologist). So there aren't many of us. Anyway, we were highly amused that Richard was being constantly pestered by the press because of the Roman skeletons found at the Enderby Park and Ride site.

Richard ended up doing radio and TV interviews - it's been on ITV Central and East Midlands Today this evening. I hear it was on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. And Radio Leicester did a thing about it. Richard spent most of the day dealing with the press. We were just quite perplexed as to why this is such big news! It's not really all that new and it's not even the most exciting archaeology we've found in the county lately. I found it odd that the BBC hadn't really figured out the connection between this story: Roman bones at park-and-ride site and this story: Iron Age bodies at park-and-ride (yes, they are the same skeletons).

Anyway, the coverage I saw on ITV Central was actually pretty good. :)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 6:54 PM