P6035 Moxy Hotel Development, Dundas Street
Item
- Title
- P6035 Moxy Hotel Development, Dundas Street
- Alternative Title
- YORYM:2018.157 Moxy Hotel Development, Dundas Street
- Description
- The investigations were largely focused in the northern half of the site where significant archaeology was known from the 2012 and 2016 YAT excavations. Watching brief monitoring in the southern half the site, including the crane base, confirmed that the slope towards the River Foss was more pronounced in antiquity and earlier deposition, as a consequence, is at a much greater depth. Although it was the intention to preserve this important structure in situ, the investigation and removal of the majority of the best-preserved and extensive structural element of Building 1, the south-west wall, has afforded an opportunity to better understand the building and its morphology. In time, following post-excavation analysis, it should be possible to ascertain the construction date of the building from carbon dating and tree ring analysis As well as Building 2, the probable 13th-century extension to the north of Building 1, exposed in 2012, a number of late-medieval structures and deposits point to extensive other alterations to the building, while the robber cut to the south suggests the building was demolished in stages as the larger building became unusable. Analysis of the archaeological material recovered from this watching brief and excavation will undoubtedly contribute significantly to our understanding not only of this medieval building but also of the development of medieval stone buildings in York from the Norman period and later.
- Type
- Watching Brief
- Excavation
- Date
- January 2018 – May 2018
- Creator
- York Archaeology
- Spatial Coverage
- Moxy Hotel, Dundas Street, York
- SE 60795 51921
- Monument Type
- Monument Type - Building
- Monument Type - Wall
- Monument Type - Pit
- Monument Type - Levelling Deposit
- Monument Type - Burial
- Period
- Medieval
Position: 7695 (58 views)