Excavations have uncovered evidence for many Roman manufacturing processes. Tools and substantial amounts of debris show that metalworkers were producing a wide range of utensils, tools, jewellery and other artefacts in iron, copper, silver and lead. At Coppergate, unusual evidence for glass production has been unearthed within a military workshop complex and across the Ouse, in Tanner Row, large quantities of leather offcuts, shoe fragments and pieces of tent have been preserved. Pottery and tile kilns were situated near the River Foss, just outside the fortress walls. Initially, vessels and roof tiles were made primarily for the army but they were also used elsewhere in the city. Not all workshop production was exclusively for a local market and it is likely that many of the jet objects found in the western Roman empire were made in York.

Eboracum ware bowl, incense burner and flagon

A piece of jet inlay with the stylised figure of a man

Bone pins

Part of a quern stone

Hair pins made of jet

A leather shoe or sandal with fine open-work decoration

A bone comb from the late 4th century decorated with
ring-and-dot