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Mathew is a Project Officer at ULAS with two decades of archaeological experience, having excavated a wide range of rural and urban archaeology across the Midlands, from the prehistoric period through to the Second World War. His specialisms include urban archaeology (he has spent a lot of his career digging up Leicester!), community archaeology, Roman and medieval archaeology and sfm photogrammetry.

Mathew graduated from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2003 with a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Landscape Studies, joining ULAS in 2004. Notable projects include a massive multi-period urban excavation (Highcross Leicester) that included excavation of Roman town houses, commercial buildings, two lost medieval churches and medieval cemeteries; a Roman cemetery (Western Road, Leicester); and most recently, excavation of a Roman shrine and medieval burial ground at Leicester Cathedral (Leicester Cathedral Revealed). In 2012, he directed the successful archaeological search for the lost grave of .

He has co-authored the most comprehensive book ever written on the archaeology of Leicester - 'Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester' (2021) and three popular archaeology books: 'Visions of Ancient Leicester' (2011), 'Richard III: The King under the Car Park' (2013) and 'Roman Leicester: Life in the Roman World' (2018). He is actively involved in promoting archaeology to the general public, regularly providing talks to local societies, and is a Committee Member of the , and a Branch Leader for the . He is also currently the lead archaeologist for the Bosworth Links Community Dig, made possible by the Heritage Fund.

• Attard, J & Morris, M (2018)  in TLAHS 92, 147-82
• Buckley, R, Morris, M, Appleby, J, King, T, O'Sullivan, D & Foxhall, L (2013)  in Antiquity 87, Issue 336, 519-38
• Buckley, R, Copper, NJ & Morris, M (2021) Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester: Excavations in the town’s north-east quarter, 1958–2006. Leicester Archaeology Monograph 26. Leicester: Â鶹ÊÓƵ
• Morris, M, Buckley, R & Codd, M (2011) Visions of Ancient Leicester. Leicester: Â鶹ÊÓƵ Archaeological Services
• Morris, M (2013)  in TLAHS 87, 9-14
• Morris, M & Buckley, R (2013) Richard III: The King Under the Car Park. Leicester: Â鶹ÊÓƵ
• Savani, G, Scott, S & Morris, M (2018) Life in the Roman World: Roman Leicester. Leicester: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, Â鶹ÊÓƵ

Mathew provides a wide range of training for community archaeology groups, including how to field walk, dig test-pits, write reports and create photogrammetry models.

• Associate of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA)
• MA Landscape Studies (Â鶹ÊÓƵ, 2003)
• BA Archaeology (Â鶹ÊÓƵ, 2002)