Main Road, Redmile, Leicestershire - Archaeological Watching Brief

Wessex Archaeology

The excavation of stretches of open-cut trenching, launch/reception pits and trial holes were monitored during the watching brief.

No archaeological remains were identified and notwithstanding the putative Roman road, the absence of archaeological remains supports the conclusions of an earlier Heritage Impact Assessment that noted the undeveloped and rural character of the land along most of the watching brief area. However, the narrow width of the intervention and the re-excavation of pre-existing cuts limits conclusions regarding the archaeological potential of the wider area around the monitored groundworks.