My failure last year to re-do in sections a revisit walk around the Humber Estuary north and south banks is now coming back to haunt me. I didn’t get round to re-recording most of the south bank and now would loke to include them in this section. My previous photographic record of the Humber south […]
A very informative website entitled ‘Roads of Roman Britain, A Gazetteer’ gives lots of details about Roman roads in different regions. The Yorkshire region is shown as having had many. One interesting reference given is where the Rev. E. Maude Cole contributed an article on the Roman Road from Stamford Bridge to Brough in the
Today’s photo shows part of Brough Haven as seen from the end of south Humber bank having walked from Crabley Farm. It was in this immediate area that the Roman legions in the first century chose as their docking point having crossed the Humber Estuary from the point now called Old Winteringham. To what extent
Today’s photo shows the majestic and highly ornate east face of York cathedral/minster from College Green, a sort of pocket park in York. An issue raised in the last blog/post was that of the adaptation of the Roman overlords to the landscape they encountered. to be continued.
The Hospitium is a detached building between the ruined nave of St. Mary’s Abbey and the Rive Ouse. The photo above shows its south gable end. The building looks very pristine from this angle because the two southern-most bays were added in the 1930s. Elsewhere the walling of the ground floor is of 15th century
Today’s photo shows a point in Museum Gardens, York at the west end of the standing ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey church. Firstly an apology. The Multangular Tower mentioned yesterday was not built as pat of the perimeter wall of St Mary’s Benedictine Abbey but is in fact the largest standing remnant of the Roman