York Archaeology Online Collections

Items

• P5761 Former Hostel and Haymarket Car Park
  A continuation of previous works around the site of the former All Saints' Church, Peasholme Green. This phase consisted of removing all remaining inhumation burials from the intended development area.
• P0854 Former D C Cook Garage
  The site of the former D.C. Cook car showrooms in Lawrence Street, York, was the subject of an archaeological evaluation in 2001 and an excavation early in 2003. Roman ditches were identified and excavated and there was some evidence, in the form of pottery, for the Anglian period (8th/9th century). The site appears to have been occupied from the 12th century and features of the medieval period included a large boundary ditch, a barrel lined well and an oven. During the post-medieval period evidence for activity on the site lessened considerably but a ditch and possible horticultural features were uncovered, as was much evidence for the 19th century and later use of the site. Investigation of plant and invertebrate remains gave a very rare view of rural conditions on the eastern edge of York.
• P5310 Jingleby Field
  In December 2009 YAT undertook an evaluation and recording project of Jingleby pasture field and surrounding boundary banks associated with the High Dalby Warren, which is sited on a promontory in Dalby Forest. Two evaluation trenches in the field exposed natural bedrock with no archaeological features. A section through an adjacent boundary bank revealed its turf built structure and an underlying feature which is tentatively suggested maybe a cross ridge boundary. A walkover survey confirmed the presence of a boundary bank enclosing much of the field and identified two square features in the boundary thought to be rabbit traps.
• P0656 Styring House Farm, Great Givendale
  A short length of ditch was exposed during groundworks, which may have been a boundary ditch of a field system. Pottery recovered from the ditch suggested that it was contemporary with the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age earthwork, Grimthorpe Hill Fort.
• P0401 Yorkshire Water Pipeline, Moor Monkton to Elvington
  This is the overall site accession code given to this project. Individual record or sites have separate numbers. See 1996.389 YORYM, 1996.390 YORYM, 1996.391 YORYM, 1996.392 YORYM, 1996.393 YORYM, 1996.396 YORYM, 1996.395 YORYM, 1996.400 YORYM
• A0882 Manor Farm, Manor Lane, Rawcliffe
  A topographic survey recorded medieval field boundaries and it was demonstrated that structures in this area were post-medieval in date. Excavation showed evidence of a Romano-British field ditch system. A large ditch which is likely to have acted as a parish boundary between Skelton and Rawcliffe was found to date from the Anglian or Anglo-Scandinavian period. A field drain and ridge and furrow provided evidence of medieval agriculture and a ditch may have been a minor boundary ditch. The buildings of Manor Farm are likely to be of post-medieval date.
• A0205 Jewbury
  500 burials from the cemetery of the Jewish community in York were excavated. It was first used sometime between 1177 and 1230 and remained in use until the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290. Traces of Roman occupation were found beneath the cemetery levels.
• A0248 County Hospital/Fossbank
  A complex of Roman boundary ditches and occasional Roman burials was encountered with traces of medieval activity largely truncated by post-medieval levelling.
• A0322 46-54 Fishergate (Redfearn National Glass)
  Traces of agricultural activity and some minor ditches represented the Roman activity on the site. The earliest extensively excavated deposits related to settlement which dated to between the late 7th century or early 8th century and the mid/late 9th century. Two distinct archaeological periods were identified, separated by a distinctive deposit of charcoal which was interpreted as levelling and represented the abandonment of the site. The first period of settlement consisted of a series of large well spaced properties limited to the east by a boundary ditch. An east-west line of pits delineated the southern edge of this settlement which contained post-built structures and their associated pits and latrines. This first settlement had the appearance of planned development. Its location at the junction of two rivers, and evidence from the finds which suggested craft activities and trading, give rise to the interpretation of the settlement as part of the trading wic, from which Eofowic derives its name. At some point all of these structures were demolished and sealed by a levelling deposit composed of domestic waste and fire sweepings. The levelling deposit was cut by a boundary ditch associated with a number of pits. This new settlement dated to the first half of the 9th century and was less intensive and less extensive than that dating to the 8th century. Occupation appeared to have continued into the late 9th century when the site was abandoned until c. AD 1000. A late 10th - 11th century structure was encountered in the south-eastern part of the site. A possible early church and associated burials were found. The cemetery continued in use through the 12th century. A stone built monastic complex, St Andrew's Gilbertine Priory, was constructed in the late 12th century, and dedicated in 1202. The priory was modified a number of times; the final adjustments to partitions took place in the 16th century. The church was demolished c. 1538. The site was used as an orchard in the 17th and 18th centuries before an early glass factory was built in 1870-1900, and replaced by modern factory buildings in 1900- 1984.