EYO4209 - Sr. Mary's-Bootham Terrace Roman Cemetery
Type
WATCHING BRIEF
Location
Location | York's Scarborough Railway |
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Grid reference | SE 59799 52477 (point) |
Map sheet | SE55SE |
Unitary Authority | City of York, North Yorkshire |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Not recorded.
Date
1845
Description
Grave Group (Plates 31, 70), found in 1845 in excavating for the railway in Bootham, now in sheffield Museum, comprising:
J. 93.I0I7, a small Castor ware beaker with cornice rim, of orange buff fabric with colour-coating. This contained L. 93.735, a jet bear, 7/8 ins. By 5/8 ins., pierced for suspension between fore and hind legs; J.93.736, a segmental jet bead with double perforation, and a small bronze follis of Costantine, London mint mark, date A.D. 312-15.
Vessels, two, found in the same excavations as, and within forty-eight hours of, the foregoing discovery, are now in Sheffield Museum: J. 93.I029, a cooking pot, of the late 3rd or early 4th century, with black fumed surface, burnished, and obtuse-angled rubbed lattice decoration; J/93.I030, a tall castor ware indented beaker of buff fabric with brown colour-coating, with scalloping between the identations, most of the neck and rim missing.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SYO62 Bibliographic reference: RCHME. 1962. Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York, Volume 1 Eboracum. 1. 72-73.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MYO3620 St Marys Bootham Terrace inhumation cemetery (Monument)
Parent/preceding Site Events/Activities (1)
- EYO2780 St. Mary's-Bootham Terrace
Record last edited
Jul 16 2012 3:30PM