P0383 St Mary's Abbey Precinct Wall

Title: P0383 St Mary's Abbey Precinct Wall
Alternative Title: 1996.168 St Mary's Abbey Precinct Wall
Description: Two buttresses were added to the Marygate face of St Mary’s Abbey Precinct Wall, requiring archaeological excavation as a condition of Scheduled Monument Consent. In each a well-built vertical wall continued below the depth of buttress construction to at least 1.5m beneath the modern ground-surface, with consolidated ramparting against the outer face.

A cobble surface which may have been a pathway was encountered and was sealed by a build-up deposit, both of these were thought to be of medieval date.

A limestone and cobble foundation of a wall running parallel to the abbey wall and a surface with associated build-up were dated to the 18th century. Modern dumped material including a domestic rubbish dump were found above this.
Type: Excavation
Date: March 1996 – March 1996
Creator: York Archaeological Trust
Contributor: David Evans (fieldwork)
Spatial Coverage: St Mary's Abbey, Marygate, York; SE59935227
Monument Type: Monument Type - Abbey; Monument Type - Precinct Wall; Monument Type - Road; Monument Type - Build-Up; Monument Type - Wall; Monument Type - Dump; Monument Type - Rubbish Dump
Period: Medieval; Post-Medieval; Modern

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