Summary of 2002 projects

2 SILVER ARCADE, LEICESTER
NGR SK 5872 0450

A desk based assessment indicated that he site is in an area occupied during the Roman period and forming part of the medieval and later town from at least the twelfth century. Two trial holes have shown that the top deposits of eighteenth century and later date continue for a depth of at least 0.7m from the current ground surface. Significant archaeology may survive below these levels.

The standing brick building on the site is of late eighteenth or very early nineteenth century and incorporates a traceried timber window. At the west of the site is a rare local survival, a sixteenth century timber frame belonging to a jettied building extending westwards.

Stone, R., 2 Silver Arcade, Leicester, Leicestershire, Report on an Archaeological Desk-based Assessment, July 2002, Marches Archaeology Series 248