Micklegate Bar black plaque

York, York, England, United Kingdom

Micklegate Bar is the most important of York’s gateways and has acted as the focus for various important events, such as greeting a monarch on a royal visit and to display the severed heads of traitors. The earliest surviving piece of the present gateway was built in the earliest 12th century, but t

here has been a gateway hereabouts since the Roman period. Roman stonework and even Roman coffins were reused by the medieval builders in its construction. In 1350 the gatehouse was heightened to incl

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