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HER Number:MYO5018
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Roman timber tower

Summary

An Agricolan timber tower, under the Yorkshire and Prudential Insurance Buildings, Davygate and Newgate Street, was excavated in 1956-7.

Grid Reference:SE 6022 5188
Map Sheet:SE65SW
Parish:York, City of York, North Yorkshire
Map:Show location on GoogleMaps

Monument Type(s)

  • INTERVAL TOWER (Roman, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

An Agricolan timber tower, under the Yorkshire and Prudential Insurance Buildings, Davygate and Newgate Street, was excavated in 1956-7. (1)

Sitng confirmed. (2)

Sources:

1 An inventory of the historical monuments in the City of York. Volume I: Eburacum: Roman York
2 copies. 1962 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 14-16
2 Field Investigators Comments F1 RW Emsley, 05-Jun-1963

GIS location needs confirming.


RCHME, 1962, Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York, Volume 1 Eboracum, p14-16 (Bibliographic reference). SYO62.

NMR, 2019, NMR data (Digital archive). SYO2214.

Sources and further reading

---Digital archive: NMR. 2019. NMR data.
---Bibliographic reference: RCHME. 1962. Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York, Volume 1 Eboracum. 1. p14-16.

Related records

MYO2015Related to: Legionary Fortress (Eboracum) (Monument)