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.
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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.
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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.
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Roman Centurion Statue |
The grounds are beautiful and the flowers were just starting to bloom when we were there.
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Abbey grounds |
Also on the grounds are the ruins of a hospital
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Hospital Ruins |
and the remains of the roman fort's wall.
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Wall is part of original Roman Fort's wall. |
We also went to the
Treasurer's house next to the Minster.
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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.
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Main entrance hall of Treasurers House
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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.
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Wall in basement just over Roman road and through which a Roman Legion marched |