York Historic Environment Record

Yorkshire Archaeological Journal- Certain general observations must be made about the excavations and discoveries on this site in order to put them into their proper perspective. The trenches (nos. 1 , 2 and 4) put down in the ‘formal’ excavation were small, deep and, of necessity, heavily revetted. The sections could not be interpreted and drawn in their entirety but only in 4 ft. ‘depths' before the timbering was inserted. Weather conditions were bad throughout the time that the trenches were open. The work on trenches 5-8 was hurried owing to the limited time allowed on them by the site owners. What is required on this S.W. front is a continuous trench, some 70-80 feet long across the wall, the ditch (es) in front of it and through the ramparts behind it. Such a trench—providing the Roman stratigraphy be undisturbed—would give the ‘picture’ so much more clearly and authoritatively than these isolated trenches possibly could. On this south-west front of the fortress there were six phases (and not five as hitherto supposed) in the defences. Five of these were found in Davygate. NMR DATA: RCHME microfilm PRN: 3381 No further info. This looks like it has two entries on the NMR. Sources: The City of York. Volume 1: Eboracum: Roman York: Addendum Kept with York: Volume I 1977 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 40-1 Virtual Catalogue Entry to support E.I. Migration 12 1959 (SUMMER)/MARTIN'S BANK MAGAZINE NMR sources entry 635646: Medieval archaeology : journal of the Society for Medieval Archaeology 1/1957/159 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments 1962/EBORACUM/14-16,19,41 Virtual Catalogue Entry to support E.I. Migration ADDYMAN,P.V./1984/ARCH PAPERS FROM YORK/195