Selected projects
4.19.30 York
This year, the York Archaeological Trust completed 25 years of watching briefs and excavation in York. The work was as productive as ever. In the Roman legionary fortress the south-western defences were uncovered including the well preserved interval tower SW1 and parts of its neighbour SW2. Several small excavations helped to define a suburban Roman settlement in Dringhouses on the edge of the modern city. Evaluation work elsewhere made mitigation strategies possible on a number of sites in the fortress, colonia, and medieval city. The City Walls restoration programmes also provided opportunities. Outside York, the Trust carried out structural recording programmes for English Heritage at Fountains Abbey, and at Hazlewood Castle and Thorpe Prebend House, Ripon.
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The Trust's English Heritage supported post-excavation and publication programme progressed well. Fascicules of The archaeology of York were published on Sources for York history to AD 1100, Roman pottery from York, and Textile production at 16-22 Coppergate. The York Archaeological Wood Centre installed extra freeze-drying equipment and undertook waterlogged wood treatment from all over the British Isles. Outreach projects continued, the Jorvick Viking Centre, the ARC, and Barley Hall all presenting the results of archaeology to large numbers of visitors while the Yorkshire Museum's exhibition on 25 years of Trust archaeology in York was epitomised on the Trust's Internet site http://www.yorkarch.demon.co.uk