Last night, after a lecture about the archaeology of York, three of us had a couple of pints of Wonkey Donkey in a pub called The Three Legged Mare. Tonight after a couple of hours of a walk-about tour of the city, via its walls, we visited Thomas's, a pub across the street from the dig site. (Poob is how some of the folks here pronounce pub.)

At work today I had to wash a bunch of run-of-the-mill pottery, bones, etc., from the Wenham Bridge site, because we still haven't got much coming out of the St. Leonard's site. It rained all day (and all night last night :-), but I worked outside under a plastic cover rather than stay in, so that was nice. All that material was washed by about 3:30 pm, though, so I went up to site and worked on the sieve for a while, and found a nice copper-allow decorated pin of some sort, perhaps part of a Roman uniform. We'll have to see what it's like when it's cleaned, and checked against known artifact finds from the same era.

Here are the QTVR panoramas from yesterday:

Roman multangular tower (exterior); our site is just inside the wall.

Roman multangular tower (interior); the lower level is Roman, the upper medieval; the stone sarcophogi are Roman, but out of context here.

St. Mary's Abbey ruins; the remains of a abbey destroyed in the Reformation.

St. Leonard's Hospital site; our site!




A couple of beasties from a medieval church destroyed in WWII.




York Minster at night. (Some passers-by chortled to themselves that "it was some way to spend the night" when they first saw me laying on the pavement against a building getting this shot -- they thought I was a bum sleeping there.)




Bootham Bar, one of the medieval gateways to the city, built atop the former Roman fort entranceway.