Read about 30 years of important discoveries made under the streets of York, more or less as they happened.

We've compiled a selection of articles from back issues of Current Archaeology – the best magazine on British archaeology.

January 1969
Baile Hill, William the Conqueror's first castle at York

November 1969
The Roman legionary fortress, under the floor of York Minster

November 1969
A Saxon defensive tower buried in the city's rampart

March 1973
A medieval hospital, 14th-century riverfront development, Viking houses and the Roman sewer

May 1975
Two Roman insulae and a Roman road

September 1977
The first report about Coppergate and the spectacular remains of the Viking town – now the focus of the Jorvik Viking Centre

May 1981
More about Coppergate

June 1986
Peter Addyman, founding director of the York Archaeological Trust, describes his years of work in the city

April 1987
The first report of the finding of the missing link – Eoforwic, the Anglo-Saxon town that was the forerunner to Jorvik

September/November 1994
A survey of the work of the York Archaeological Trust, including the opening of Barley Hall and the excavation of the medieval Jewish burial ground

September/November 1994
A keyhole excavation through York's waterfront, from medieval to Viking and Roman structures – including a possible method to foretell flooding

September/November 1994
The excavation of the medieval hospital of St Nicholas


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