York Historic Environment Record

This report relates York Archaeological Trust’s excavations at the General Accident site, 24-30 Tanner Row, York, which took place between May 1983 and July 1984. The Tanner Row site is located approximately 120m south-west of the River Ouse, within the Roman civilian settlement, or colonia, and within the medieval city walls. Five interconnecting trenches were excavated, revealing a complex sequence of deposits dating from Roman times to the present including exceptionally well-preserved Roman timber structures. These timbers are the subject of a separate Museum Resilience Fund research project by S. Allen of York Archaeological Trust. The principal structures seen at the site were constructed between c. AD 160 and c. AD 225. During this relatively short time-span there were two successive periods of timber buildings (with some of the minor buildings being replaced several times), then a period of stone/timber buildings, and finally a period when major stone buildings were constructed at the site. The stone buildings remained standing, and indeed were re-used into the 12th century, being finally demolished in the 12th or early 13th century. This report was prepared with a grant from the Museum’s Resilience Fund.