Micklegate Bar, York

Micklegate Bar is the most important of York's gateways and has acted as the focus for various important events, such as greeting a monarch on a royal visit and to display the severed heads of traitors.
The earliest surviving piece of the present gateway was built in the early 12th century, but there has been a gateway hereabouts since the Roman period.
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There were people living over the bar as early as 1196 and the last resident left in 1918.

- text above from the wall plaque.