As you pass through the Museum Street gates into the 'Museum Gardens' the first ruins you see on your immediate right are the remains of the city wall leading up to the south west corner (Multangular tower) corner tower of the Roman fortress and subsequent medieval fortifications distinguished by the 'stratified layers' of brickwork and brick sized masonry of Roman times topped with the larger stones masonry of the medieval period. Behind these walls adjacent to the museum gardens railings are the ruins of St Leonard's Hospice a medieval 'Alms House' being the source of the name 'Lendal'. In the first vaulted archway of these ruins used to be stored several sarcophigi found locally and as far away as a Roman cemetery found in the gardens of the Royal Station Hotel when it was being constructed.
Ian