P5400 St Peter's School, Clifton, York
Item
- Title
- P5400 St Peter's School, Clifton, York
- Description
- Unfortunately it was not possible in the available time to even partially excavate any of the recorded features. Their stratigraphic position and clean backfills may indicate that they are of some considerable age but they cannot be accurately dated. There is certainly more than one phase of activity since it could be reasonably demonstrated that Context 1003 truncated Context 1001 and that Context 1007 was on a completely different alignment to 1003. Feature 1003 does run roughly parallel to the presumed course of RCHM Roman Road 5 which is meant to lie a short distance to the north-east of the old swimming pool and thus could possibly be Roman in date although it would be too wide for a roadside ditch and presumably had some other function. The possible pit, Context 1005, is also of interest since it suggests some form of static activity in the vicinity. It remains possible, then, that the features recorded during this watching brief are to be associated with some form of activity, possibly settlement, beside Roman Road 5. This form of activity has already been discovered in archaeological interventions in the Dringhouses area of York and if these features are part of something similar then roadside settlement along the Roman roads leading out of York may be more common than once thought.
- Type
- Watching Brief
- Date
- July 5, 2010 – July 12, 2010
- Creator
- York Archaeological Trust
- Contributor
- David Evans (Fieldwork)
- Ian Milsted (Fieldwork)
- Spatial Coverage
- Clifton, York
- SE59435256
- Period
- Romano-British
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