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York University Phase 2

September 2011 | York University

PJO Archaeology has been retained by the University of York as consultant for Phase 2 of the new campus development at Heslington East. This has involved producing a second revision of the Archaeological Remains Management Plan on the basis of which a project design and brief were produced for excavations at the eastern end of the site in an area previously shown by evaluation to have high archaeological potential. The current programme of excavations by On Site Archaeology began in August 2010. It is focused on an ancient spring line which was actively managed from the Bronze Age - early Roman period. Amongst the finds so far have been parts of two alder wood well linings of the Bronze Age and substantial timber posts associated with a Roman well head. Two other Roman wells were lined with timber stakes and re-used stone blocks. A complex series of ditched enclosures represent a late Iron Age - early Roman field system. Work will be complete at the end of September 2011.

In the same part of the site a training dig run by the University Department of Archaeology has been working on a Roman farmstead with timber structures, ovens, kilns and a well. A solid square cobbled base may have supported a mausoleum from which the stone blocks in the superstructure were then reused for well linings.

Patrick Ottaway  

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