View NNE of the Anglian Tower, York, England, UK, built into a breach in the C4thAD Roman legionary fortress wall & abutted by the medieval city wall.
View NNE of the Anglian Tower, York, England, UK, built into a breach in the C4th AD Roman legionary fortress wall & abutted by the medieval city wall. The rough inner face of the Roman wall (front L) would originally have been covered by a sloping bank, the banks of successive city walls - Roman, Early Medieval, Norman & Medieval - are visible to the rear R. The Early Medieval tower may have been built in the mid C7th or the mid C9th, it was subsequently covered up by a Danish rampart built after the Viking invasion of York in 866 AD. At around 3m high only the ground floor of the tower survives; its upper storeys have been removed & its original height is unknown as is its exact purpose. The tower is square, has two opposed arched doorways & a vaulted tunnel ceiling. The tower, discovered in 1839, was excavated in 1969. It stands in the grounds of York City Library, on the inside face of the city west wall just N of the Roman & medieval Multangular Tower in Museum Gardens.
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Location: Anglian Tower and City Walls, Museum Gardens, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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