{{Short description|Scheduled monument in York, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} thumb|Lamel Hill {{coord|53.951014|-1.065226|display=title|region:GB_scale:10000}} {{OSM Location map | lat =53.953 <!-- lat and lon location for centre of map --> | lon =-1.075 | float=right | zoom =13 | width = 255 <!-- width and height of the frame. numeric input - do not add px --> | height = 280 | caption = {{center|Location within York}} | minimap = file | mini-file=York UK locator map.svg | mini-width=100 | mini-height=73 | minipog-x=62 | minipog-y=46 | scalemark =120
| mark-lat = 53.951014 <!-- lat and lon location for the marker --> | mark-lon = -1.065226 | mark-size=10 | label =Lamel Hill | label-size=14 | label-color= | label-pos=right | mark-title = Lamel Hill, York | mark-image = <!-- these three are used within the full screen linked page --> | mark-description = Anglo-Saxon cemetery and Civil War gun-emplacement}} '''Lamel Hill''' is a scheduled monument about {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} south-east of the centre of York, England.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1004886 |desc=Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus) |access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref> It is on the grounds of The Retreat and the northern part of Walmgate Stray, and in some medieval documents it is referred to as Siward's Mill Hill, or Siward's How Mill, in reference to its previous use as the base of a windmill. However it should not be confused with another site known as Siward's Howe which is about {{convert|220|yd|m}} further east.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.york.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/9951/syo468_heslington_hill_post-excpdf.pdf |title=POST-EXCAVATION ASSESSMENT: HESLINGTON HILL, HESLINGTON, SITE CODE: YHS02, NGR: SE 6235 5085, REPORT: June 2003 |publisher=FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY SPECIALISTS |access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
Lamel Hill is best known for having been the location of a Parliamentary gun-emplacement aimed at Walmgate Bar in the City Walls during the Siege of York in 1644.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://richardiiiexperience.com/discover-medieval-york/about-the-city-walls/the-walls-vs-the-civil-war/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429222656/http://richardiiiexperience.com/discover-medieval-york/about-the-city-walls/the-walls-vs-the-civil-war/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=The Walls vs The Civil War |publisher= York Archaeological Trust |access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref> It was the site of York's first formal archaeological excavation in 1849, when traces of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery were found.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thurman |first=John |date=1849 |title=Tumular Cemetery at Lamel Hill, York |url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-1132-1/dissemination/pdf/006/006_027-039_129-136.pdf |journal=The Archaeological Journal |volume=6 |pages=27–39, 129–136 |access-date=21 December 2016 |via=Archaeological Data Service}}</ref> Lamel Hill is part of a conservation area which was designated in 1975.
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==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/LowMoorAllotments/Surroundings.html |title=The Retreat / Heslington Road |publisher=Low Moor Allotments Association| first=Kester |last=Clegg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030427032329/http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/LowMoorAllotments/Surroundings.html |archive-date=27 April 2003}} *{{cite web|url=http://carlanayland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/post-roman-york-lamel-hill-cemetery.html |title=Post-Roman York: Lamel Hill cemetery |publisher=Carla Nayland Historical Fiction |date=12 July 2012|access-date=21 December 2016}} {{commons category|Lamel Hill, York|position=left}}
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