Anglian Tower

Anglian Tower

The Anglian Tower is the lower portion of a tower on the city walls of York in the English county of North Yorkshire. Its date is somewhat controversial.

The tower is located on a section of the Roman city wall in the Museum Gardens. It is a small square tower, built of stone with arched doorways and tunnel-vaulted, and has a modern plaque stating:

:"This building is the lower storey of a tower built into a breach in the 4th century Roman fortress wall perhaps in the reign of King Edwin (616 - 632 AD). It was hidden under the Danish and later ramparts and rediscovered in 1839."

Despite such a bold statement, it has variously been dated to the late Roman, the sub-Roman or the Anglian period. [cite book
last = Hall
first = Richard
title = English Heritage: Book of York
origyear = 1996
edition = 1st Ed.
year = 1996
publisher = B.T.Batsford Ltd
isbn = 0-7134-7720-2
P34
]

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