York Historic Environment Record

An excavated stretch of the Severan Roman Fortress Wall, an interval tower and the East Angle Tower can be seen just inside and partially under the existing City Walls. The Tower appears to overlie the foundations of an earlier Trajanic Tower (107-8 AD). This stretch of Wall also runs past the impressive timberframed Merchant Taylor’s Hall, the Roman remains of a corner tower and an early 19th century brick built ice house in the external rampart, which are all located south east of Monk Bar. This section of Wall extends eastwards to the Foss and the site of Layerthorpe Postern and the medieval Layerthorpe Bridge, both now demolished. This was where the City Walls met the area without walls, defended by means of the King’s Fishpond.