Thought to date to the 4th-3rd centuries BC, a remarkable group of 11 Iron Age cauldrons was uncovered on an archaeological site on the fringes of Leicester in 2013 by a team from ULAS. This was the first such discovery of these vessels in the East Midlands.
They were lifted by conservators in blocks of their surrounding soil so that they can be excavated and recorded microscopically in MOLA’s conservation laboratory.
This is just one of the CT scan images that has given our conservators the first glimpses of what lies beneath the soil.
