York Historic Environment Record

A trenchc.1.5m long and 0.9m wide, narrowing at the base to 0.6m. At 0.7m depth was a deposit of clayey silt and mortar. A putative construction cut had the remains of a cobble foundation deposit on which was set a limestone wall aligned NE/SW. This was sealed by levelling deposits associated with the present floor surface. A second excavaiton in July within the pavement (1.4mx0.7m and 0.5m deep) and across the street (0.3m wide and between 0.45cm to 1m deep). In the pavement trench, between 0.15m-0.50m was mixed deposit immediately below the bedding for the present road surface. The trench across the road showed the present road set on a layer of concrete below which was a deposit of firm brown clay. The most complex sequence of deposits was seen in the south-west end of the trench, comprising a sequence of deposits between 0.5m-1m depth.