York Historic Environment Record

EARTHWORK

¶(1) Mound (59245102), Mount School, now approximately circular, with a flat asphalted top and surrounded by an asphalt path, is 4¼ ft. high and 67 ft. in diameter. In 1852 the OS map shows the diameter as 80 ft.; it was then part of a landscape garden. Though then marked, as on all subsequent OS maps, as a tumulus, evidence of its original purpose is lacking.

It could well be the steading for a post mill, but its position cannot be identified with that of any mill shown on early maps of the area. The flimsy basis for the identification of this mound as a 'tumulus' is set forth by Hargrove (History, 1, 245). SYO64

NMR:
[SE 5923 5102] Tumulus [AT][(1)(2)]
[SE 5937 5106] Tumulus [AT] (1) (Site of) on (3) and not shown at all on (2). (1-3)

It is sugested that the above tumuli were nothing more than the steadings of windmills. The mound at SE 5923 3702 is in fact shown as a Windmill on Archers map. [However, they fall in a Roman and DA burial area later used as windmill steads]. (4)

The published 'tumulus' at SE 5923 5102, is a small asphalt-covered mound, 1.2 m in height, surrounded by a brick retaining wall. No identification of the present feature can be attempted. (5)


4a VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION Archer's Map of York c1680 (unpublished in York Library)
1 Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1846-53
2 Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1958
3 VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION Yorks Arch & A S Ann rept 1952 29
4 VIRTUAL CATALOGUE ENTRY TO SUPPORT NAR MIGRATION OS 1:500 1891
5 Field Investigators Comments F1 RL 04-JUN-63

NMR, NMR data (Unassigned). SYO2214.

RCHME, 1972, RCHME City of York Volume III South-west of the Ouse, p1 (Monograph). SYO64.

EARTHWORK

¶(1) Mound (59245102), Mount School, now approximately circular, with a flat asphalted top and surrounded by an asphalt path, is 4¼ ft. high and 67 ft. in diameter. In 1852 the OS map shows the diameter as 80 ft.; it was then part of a landscape garden. Though then marked, as on all subsequent OS maps, as a tumulus, evidence of its original purpose is lacking.

It could well be the steading for a post mill, but its position cannot be identified with that of any mill shown on early maps of the area. The flimsy basis for the identification of this mound as a 'tumulus' is set forth by Hargrove (History, 1, 245).