P5473 All Saints Church
Item
- Title
- P5473 All Saints Church
- Description
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The hole broken through the church wall was of interest since it showed that at least in its location the church wall below the modern interior ground level was clay bonded rather than with mortar. Whether this is a local phenomenon is uncertain but certainly is unusual and any further work on the below ground walls would be well worth monitoring.
In the exterior trenches no articulated bone was encountered at any point although the quantity of disarticulated bone recovered and reburied indicated that earlier burials had suffered much disturbance from later ones. Throughout the foul and fresh water trenches the observed stratigraphy was generally very simple normally consisting of topsoil and very mixed churchyard soil. Because of this disturbance no finds were retained but it was noted that once below the topsoil none of the finds seen, principally clay pipe fragments and willow pattern pottery, needed to be later than the 19th century. Inspection of the heavily weathered grave slabs in the vicinity also suggested that the latest burials might date to the mid to late 19th century. - Type
- Watching Brief
- Date
- 18 January 2011 – 4 February 2011
- Creator
- York Archaeological Trust
- Contributor
- David Evans (Fieldwork)
- Spatial Coverage
- Pavement, York
- SE60405173
- Period
- Medieval
- Post-medieval
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