The Trust has recovered a wide variety of domestic items from both religious and secular sites. These include structural fittings, window glass, door and chest fittings, locks and keys, and large stone lamps. Kitchen utensils such as cooking vessels, knives and spoons have been found on many sites. At Coppergate, a wooden bucket was recovered from the bottom of a barrel-lined well and a lavatory seat was found still in place above a cess pit. Medieval feasting is illustrated by finds of fine imported table ware and glass, and the bones of swan, deer, pheasant and boar dumped in middens. Chess was one of the board games played and the unusual discovery of a wooden ball shows that bowls was played in York as early as the 15th century.

A jet chess piece with suspension loop

An improvised board for the game Nine Men’s Morris scratched on the underside of a wooden coffin lid