Watermead Country Park, Leicestershire

Abstract

Watermead Country Park is a two mile long area of wetland located on the Holocene floodplain of the River Soar, a few miles north of Leicester city centre. The underlying geology of sands and gravel occasioned aggregate quarrying to expose a late Neolithic burnt mound on the banks of a Soar palaeochannel and a peat deposit containing both butchered animal bones and human remains. Timber pile posts from a later (Saxon) foot-bridge or jetty were recorded in the same location