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Location: York (Fishergate), Yorkshire
Name and type: St Andrew, Gilbertine priory
Founded: 1200
Dissolved: 1538
References: Stroud and Kemp 1993; Kemp and Graves 1996
Database code: XAND86 (Excel data only)
An important group of 272 burials: 108 from church, 23 from cloister alley and garth, three from chapter house, 51 from the eastern cemetery and 87 from the south cemetery. Numbered plan of overall cemetery not available, but distribution plots included in report. The skeletal material is in addition to a number of 11th- to 12th-century burials from an earlier parochial cemetery (not considered here). Skeletal analysis was undertaken by Gill Stroud. Male to female ratio 3.2M:1F (176:55), with 14% subadults, and 36% elderly. Five definite and a further eight possible DISH cases, plus three possible tuberculosis cases. Three of five burials in cloister garth had blade wounds, one also probably associated with dagger chape. Very good evidence of zoning, with 93% (47/51) males in eastern cemetery, of which 29 (57%) were men over 45 years. In south cemetery, only 54% male (47/87), with instead 25% subadult and 18% female. Burial practice varied. Few wooden coffins (numbers unclear); six stone coffins (all in buildings, including one Roman sarcophagus); stone cist, stone grave marker; two tile-lined graves; one lime-lined grave. Finds included chalice and paten, a paten, a seal matrix, copper-alloy poultice discs, and a dagger chape.