EYO4207 - Sr. Mary's-Bootham Terrace Roman Cemetery

Type

WATCHING BRIEF

Location

Location back lane S.E of St. Mary's
Grid reference SE 59828 52338 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Unitary Authority City of York, North Yorkshire

Technique(s)

Organisation

Not recorded.

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Grave group, found in 1887 in the back lane S.E. of St. Mary's, now in the Yorkshire Museum (YMH, 148, q), comprising: H.319.I, a storage jar with countersunk handles, of creamy grey fabric with black surface in alternate burnished and unburnished horizontal bands including a band of rubbed cheveron ornament with a series of rubbed hatchings at a slant below. This contained H.319.2-3, the bases of two bowls of common green glass, H.3194-5, two jet bangles, and H.319.6, a fragment of a third.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: RCHME. 1962. Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York, Volume 1 Eboracum. 1. 72-73.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • St Marys Bootham Terrace inhumation cemetery (Monument)

Parent/preceding Site Events/Activities (1)

  • Sr. Mary's-Bootham Terrace

Record last edited

Jul 16 2012 3:25PM

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