York

There are two county Museums in York.  The Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum.  the latter has just been remodeled and reopened so we took a day and went to see it.

St. Mary's Abbey Ruins

It is build on top of St. May's Abbey's ruins.  Part of the chapter house sits in the basement.

Fireplace from the Chapter House

 A large part of the museums collections are items from the abbey. The museum also houses a lot of Roman artifacts.

Roman Centurion Statue

The grounds are beautiful and the flowers were just starting to bloom when we were there.

Abbey grounds

                                       Also on the grounds are the ruins of a hospital

Hospital Ruins

                                              and the remains of the roman fort's wall.

Wall is part of original Roman Fort's wall.

We also went to the Treasurer's house next to the Minster.

Treasurer's House

  It has a 2000 yr old history starting with the remains of a roman road in the basement and the Edwardian servant quarters in the attic.  It was donated to the National Trust with 300 yrs of  furniture, ceramics, textiles in tact.


Main entrance hall of Treasurers House


        

Fifty years ago a young man was doing some rewiring in the basement of the Treasurer's House.  He was standing on the remains of a Roman road that runs under the house when a Roman Legion marched out of the wall. Four people have seen them.                                                                                                                                                                                



Wall in basement just over Roman road and through which a Roman Legion marched