Archaeology of York Volumes

part of the ‘Craft, Industry and Everyday Life’ series

by Quita Mould, Ian Carlisle and Esther Cameron

This volume presents the surviving evidence for the manufacture and use of leather artefacts at York during the Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval periods.

by HEM Cool, G Lloyd-Morgan and AD Hooley

Reports on the finds other than pottery recovered during three excavations with the fortress of York, at Blake Street and Swinegate in the praetentura and the Purey Cust Nuffield Hospital in the retentura. This is the largest collection of Roman artefacts to have been published from York.

by Jason Monaghan

The pottery from this site reveals the changing patterns of ceramic use within the legionary fortress of Eboracum. Excavations at 9 Blake Street resulted in the recovery of the longest sequence of Roman pottery seen in York to date. Of particular interest was material deposited during the early military occupation of York, which included a large group of unused South Gaulish samian and quantities of early Flavian fine wares, plus an unusual assemblage of lamps.

Tanner Row and Rougier Street

by JR Perrin

This report examines the 9,500 sherds of Roman pottery from two sites within the colonia of York. A dating framework is based mainly on the samian ware and mortaria, and there is a discussion of the application of statistical analyses to the wares grouped by fabric and period. This is followed by a report on amphorae from York, which emphasises the important position held by Spanish olive oil and French wine in the economy of the area.

by TP O’Connor

The 1985–6 excavations at 46-54 Fishergate provided the first opportunity nationally to excavate to modem standards a house of the Gilbertine order, and the first opportunity in York to investigate a substantial area of Anglian occupation of the 8th–9th centuries AD. It was, therefore, one of the most important excavations to have been undertaken in the city to date.

by G Stroud and RL Kemp

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by R Kemp and CP Graves

Excavations revealed an extensive area of a late 10th–12th century settlement and the well-preserved Gilbertine Priory of St Andrew, founded in 1195. The priory underwent a series of changes throughout its lifetime, and was almost completely rebuilt on a smaller scale during the mid 14th century, but was demolished in 1538. This report includes historical and environmental evidence, details of the architectural fragments, window glass, floor and roof tiles and wall plaster from the priory.

The College at Bedern

by Julian D Richards

Excavations on the site of the College of the Vicars Choral in York, revealed an extensive complex of college buildings.

by Julian Richards

This 13th–16th century foundry consisted of timber framed workshops on both sides of a narrow lane, which contained metalworking hearths, furnaces and a barrel lined well. The evidence points to the foundry’s main product being cauldrons.

Lloyds Bank, Pavement and Other Sites

by PV Addyman and RA Hall

with a Survey of Defences North-East of the Ouse

The area of central York between the Rivers Foss and Ouse has, over the past hundred years, became something of a locus classicus for the archaeological study of the Viking Age town in Britain.

9 Blake Street

by RA Hall

The most complete data-set for the development of the fortress. After successive phases of later 1st-mid 2nd century timber buildings, a replanning and rebuilding in stone provides the framework for a series of later changes in the style and form of Roman occupation.