| Title: |
George Street/Margaret Street, York: Report on an Archaeological Evaluation (1998 Field Report No. 1) |
| Number of Pages: |
40 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
The evaluation revealed evidence for the survival of archaeological deposits from the Roman to the post-medieval periods. The earliest feature identified was a Roman curvilinear gully, probably dating to the 2nd century AD. This was aligned north-south and may have indicated initial division and settlement of land on the east side of the River Foss. The gully was rapidly backfilled, the deposits containing occasional fragments of demolition material that seemed to indicate the presence of a substantial Roman building close by. By the late 2nd or early 3rd century a second gully was excavated on a roughly east-west alignment. This was in turn backfilled and the area probably became arable or common land until the early medieval period. Medieval dump deposits dating to the 11th or 12th century were the next deposits recovered and there followed a sequence of dumping and levelling, interspersed with periods of pit excavation, through to the 17th century. These dump deposits appeared to have accumulated within a large landscape feature bisecting the site on a north-west to south-east axis on the line of the medieval parish boundary. This may have been the King's Drain which was marked on the 1852 Ordnance Survey map of the area. The medieval dump deposits backfilling this were then truncated by the foundation and drainage trenches for the Victorian terraced houses and St. Georges School situated on the site. [Au] |
| Author: |
Neil Macnab
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| Publisher: |
York Archaeology
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| Year of Publication: |
1998
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
George StreetMargaret Street York |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
St Georges School |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
River Foss |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Kings Drain |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| 2nd Century Ad (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 12th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late 2nd (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Early 3rd Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Roman (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 17th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Victorian (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1998
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: GEORGE STREET/MARGARET STREET, YORK
Study area: 6500sqm
Investigation type: Evaluation
District: York UA
Monument: PIT. Medieval (1066-1540), [finds]. Roman (AD43-410), [finds]. Medieval (1066-1540), GULLY. Roman (AD43-410), DRAIN. Post-medieval (1540-1901), PIT. Post-medieval (1540-1901), [finds]. Early Medieval (410-1066)
Ngr: SE60785145
Parish:
Postcode: YO1 1PZ
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
