Leicester Market revamp budget set to rise by £1.9m

Finds from archaeologists included the remains of a building called Gainsborough Chamber, a 16th Century civic building with its own “vile” dungeon.Also discovered during the excavations was evidence of the city’s medieval Shambles and Drapery, a 15th Century market hall that once housed butchers, drapers, shoemakers and other trades.Among the oldest finds was a small collection of prehistoric worked flints, including cutting tools characteristic of the Neolithic period, about 12,000 years ago.They also included a hoard of about 30 Roman coins, thought to be from the 4th Century, and several Roman buildings across the site, including evidence of early timber structures and rare pottery kilns.ULAS said it had also found the grave of a Roman infant beneath the floor of a timber building thought to be nearly 1,800 years old.”These discoveries are of considerable importance to the history and identity of Leicester – and provide valuable new insight into the city’s development through time,” Soulsby said.