Roman Column, York
Opposite the south door of York Minster there stands a great Roman column nearly 8m high. It was found by archaeologists digging in 1967 – 72 underneath the Minster tower. The column had originally been one of sixteen supporting the roof of York’s greatest Roman building, the basilica of the fortress headquarters.
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member.
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