P0511 County House, Monkgate
Item
- Title
- P0511 County House, Monkgate
- Alternative Title
- 1997.103 YORYM County House
- Description
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The excavations revealed evidence for settlement within this area of Monkgate from the 10th or 11th c. through to the present day suggesting that activity associated with properties on the Monkgate frontage extended into the investigated area and illustrating the development of the Newbiggin suburb outside the eastern gate of the medieval city. Deposits demonstrate horticultural/agricultural activity and rubbish pits in the Anglo- Scandinavian and medieval periods. The area continued to be used as garden and yard with out-building with evidence of the dumping of metal working slag dating to the 17th or early 18th century.
In the 19th c. the area was landscaped as gardens, and ash and clinker, possibly from St Maurice's vicarage, was dumped in the area. In the 1980s the area became a car park. - Type
- Evaluation, Borehole
- Date
- 17 October 1997 – 24 October 1997
- Creator
- York Archaeological Trust
- Contributor
- N Macnab (fieldwork)
- Spatial Coverage
- Monkgate, York
- SE60735320
- Monument Type
- Monument Type - Agriculture and Subsistence
- Monument Type - Rubbish Pit
- Monument Type - Dump
- Monument Type - Yard
- Monument Type - Agriculture and Subsistence
- Monument Type - Levelling
- Monument Type - Garden
- Monument Type - Metal-Working
- Monument Type - Landscaped Ground
- Monument Type - Car Park
- Period
- Anglo-Scandinavian
- Medieval
- Post-Medieval
- Modern
Position: 3947 (57 views)