Multangular Tower - Museum Gardens

The multangular tower in the Museum Gardens is of Roman origin and is ten sided. In roman times it would have had a roof on it and evidence suggests that there were three levels to the tower and that it was nine metres high. Only six metres of the remaining masonry is Roman.

DIG - St. Saviourgate

This fine looking old church of St. Saviour in St. Saviourgate houses an attraction run by York Arachaelogical Trust called DIG. You can take part in a simulated excavation and unearth items from Roman, Viking, Mediaeval and Victorian periods. It is open every day except over Christmas when it shuts 24 - 26 December.

It stands in the shadow of York's ugliest building.

Leaded Windows - St. Sampsons Square

The coloured reflections in this leaded window caught my eye and then drew me to the intricate pattern of the glasswork. This is a window of the "Roman Bath" public house in St. Sampsons Square. The Roman bath has changed it's name a few times since it was built in the 18th century eventually being named the "Mail Coach" when it was taken on by a former mail coach driver George Penock in 1823 as landlord. It was a prominent coaching inn in those days making the name even more appropriate. It kept the name Mail Coach until the 1970s when the remains of a Roman Bath were found in the basement during alteration work. It then became known as the Roman Bath. There is a plate glass floor in the pub that allows you to view the roman remains and there is a small museum of Roman finds.