More on the York anchoress, her parish church and later burials

Following on from my post A medieval York Anchoress and her parish church there are more detailed accounts of the latest research and links to the recent article in Medieval Archaeology from Medievalists.net at Remains of 15th-century anchoress identified and from Live Science at Medieval religious hermit buried in 'extremely unusual' position had syphilis

I would hestitate to agree with everything that is suggested in them, including the idea that the apse of the church was a seperate space or room in the fifteenth century, but the articles do give more substance to the discoveries.

The Medievalists.net article also has a link to the Current Archaeology account of the site of All Saints Fishergate from August 2010 which gives more details as to the history of the church and to the life of Lady Isabel German as parish anchoress from 1428 to 1448. This   also has material about what appear to be Civil War burials of members of the Parliamentary forces besieging the city in 1644 who appear to have died of disease and were buried in mass graves on the site. The illustrated article can be seen at Excavating All Saint’s: A Medieval church rediscovered