York Historic Environment Record

NMR information:

[SE60595221] Tower [GS]. (1)

A Roman interval tower (NE6 on key plan) was partly excavated in 1926 and the upper part exposed in 1953. (2)

[Towers NE 1-5 have not been discovered and are conjectural positions.]

Published survey correct. The last excavtion of the tower has been left open, and the wall core is exposed to a depth of 0.7m. See GP Ao/63/113/5. (3)


1 Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)
Default value used to record large numbers of archive items which are not separately catalogued. See Monument Recording Guidelines for details of use. )S 1:1250 1961
2 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 31-2
3 Field Investigators Comments F1 RW Emsley 05-Jun-1963

NMR, NMR data (Unassigned). SYO2214.