A0850 North Street FAS, pumping main trench

Title: A0850 North Street FAS, pumping main trench
Alternative Title: 1993.19 Flood Alleviation Scheme
Description: Alluvial silt was observed at 2.80m below ground and above it a levelling deposit, likely to have been used to raise the level of the land prior to building construction. A small area of cobbling of medieval date was found associated with a building. Evidence for the building was a cobble footing and limestone padstone and a fragmentary wall. Other structural remains observed were two timber piles set in clay and limestone blocks with a further horizontal timber. When this building was demolished the area was levelled with 0.80m depth of sand. At this level a brick culvert was constructed of likely 15th century date. Above a further levelling deposit was a substantial limestone wall which may have been a flood defence wall associated with a slipway, or the 19th century warehouses which had occupied the site.
Type: Watching Brief
Date: 6 December 1993 – 6 December 1993
Creator: York Archaeological Trust
Contributor: Bryan Antoni (fieldwork)
Spatial Coverage: North Street, York; SE60085177
Monument Type: Monument Type - Alluvial; Monument Type - Levelling; Monument Type - Cobble Surface; Monument Type - Building; Monument Type - Drain; Monument Type - River Wall
Period: Medieval; Post-Medieval; Modern

Position: 5239 (48 views)