The Burton Stone and St. Mary Magdelene Hospital, York bronze plaque

York, York, England, United Kingdom

The Burton Stone. This stone, first recorded in 1575 and named after the local Burton family, is believed to be the base of a cross which formed a city boundary marker after the dissolution of the nearby St. Mary Magdelene Hospital. During York's worst bout of plague in 1604-05, when a third of its

citizens died, people placed money, immersed in vinegar in the hollows, to safely pay outsiders for food or other goods.

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