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The secret remains of a Roman aqueduct
The Raw Dykes was part of an aqueduct conveying water to Leicester’s Roman baths.
Leicester was an important town in Roman Britain.
The Raw Dykes is a large double bank and ditch in the south of modern Leicester. It is thought to have been part of an aqueduct conveying water to the Roman baths situated by the Jewry Wall in Leicester.
In 1938, Archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon led a dig that found Roman pottery.
BBC Leicester’s Ben Jackson went to see it for himself with historian Peter Liddle.
Produced by Pete Wardman.
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Image: The 1938 dig on the Raw Dykes.
Leicester City Council.
