P0798/P0838 Land off Lord Mayor's Walk and Clarence Street
Item
- Title
- P0798/P0838 Land off Lord Mayor's Walk and Clarence Street
- Alternative Title
- 2000.589 Land off Lord Mayor's Walk and Clarence Street
- Description
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The desk top study identified the likelihood that Roman and medieval remains would survive beneath the existing coach park surface but that there would have been significant truncation resulting from 19th century terraced housing on parts of the site. In the medieval period the site was part of the Horsefair but cartographic evidence suggests that at least one significant building may have stood on the site.
An evaluative excavation on the site found residual Roman pottery suggesting the survival of Roman deposits below the level reached by excavation. Deposits up to 1.50m thick were dated to the medieval period. Some of this material represented plough soils. Part of this material may have been the upcast resulting from digging the city wall ditch, or alternatively may have resulted from cleaning the ditch out.
Modern activity on the site was extensive. It was mainly in the form of the construction and subsequent demolition of buildings, known to be domestic housing. A brick culvert and a cellar associated with the Victorian housing on the site. - Type
- Desk Top Study, Evaluation
- Date
- September 2000 – September 2000
- 18 December 2000 – 22 December 2000
- 22 January 2001 – 26 January 2001
- Creator
- York Archaeological Trust
- Contributor
- Rhona Finlayson (fieldwork)
- David Evans (fieldwork)
- Spatial Coverage
- Land off Lord Mayor's Walk & Clarence Street, College of Ripon & York, York
- SE60305260
- Monument Type
- Monument Type - Agriculture and Subsistence
- Monument Type - Ditch
- Monument Type - Building
- Period
- Medieval
- Modern
Position: 4201 (55 views)