York Historic Environment Record

Between the 20th September 2021 and 9th February 2022, York Archaeology undertook a series of investigations at Clifton Ings, York, prior to the improvement of the flood defences in this location. A series of features were investigated during the strip map and sample excavation of the access road and watching brief of the Northern Embankment. These included ditches from which pottery dated to the Iron Age and Romano–British periods was recovered, medieval northeast – southwest aligned ridge and furrow, a rubbish dump relating to the former ‘North Riding Mental Hospital’ and an alignment of modern post-holes. The dataset recovered during the archaeological works is of limited diagnostic value. The recovered pottery was of small size and is likely to be residual. In addition, a building survey equivalent to Historic England level 2 survey of part of the boundary wall of the former North and East Ridings Lunatic Asylum, later Clifton Hospital. See also SYO