P5420 15 Monk Bar Court, York
Item
- Title
- P5420 15 Monk Bar Court, York
- Description
- A quick inspection of the site showed that at the location of the borehole demolition material had been used to raise the ground level within a now demolished building by at least 1.4m. Below this Context 1005 may represent the remains of a floor within the demolished structure. Below this level the slightly clayey silts, Contexts 1002 – 4 almost certainly represent medieval build-up deposits, certainly a small fragment of 12th century gritty ware was recovered from Context 1002. The depth and nature of the clean clayey sand deposit indicates that this is almost certainly Roman stratigraphy. This directly overlay the natural clay which lay at a depth of 4.6m below the level of Monk Bar Court. The observed sequence matches quite well other sequences seen in the area and indicates that below modern and possibly post-medieval disturbance there are intact deposits of at least Roman and medieval date on the site. The observations of the test pits were less productive mainly due to their relatively shallow penetration into possibly disturbed material. It was, however, noted that the foundations of the walls being investigated were very variable in depth, those in Test Pit 2 coming to an end just 0.05m below the existing ground surface compared to 0.3m in Test Pit 4.
- Type
- Watching Brief
- Date
- 12 August 2010 – 12 August 2010
- Creator
- York Archaeological Trust
- Contributor
- David Evans (Fieldwork)
- Period
- Romano-British
- Medieval
- Post-medieval
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