Week 6 18-22 July 2001
This week the site hosted events over the weekend as part of National Archaeology Day. Under the management of Russell Marwood hundreds of children took part in a quiz, with prizes on offer of either family tickets to JORVIK or the chance to spend a day on the excavation. On Sunday a team of medieval re-enactors took part. A great time was had by all.
						The third contingent of 10-day trainees began their course, together with the fifth group of 5-day trainees. A number of placements also helped this week, including two YAT staff, Jon Brownridge and Jane Stockdale.
Trench 1
In Trench 1 work has been complicated by the discovery of yet more 19th-century excavation trenches. However, in one of these it was possible to look beneath the flagstone capping seen last week and photograph the interior of the drain. It is rather more crudely built than the Trench 2 drain but still measures about 1 metre deep and 60cm wide.
				Elsewhere in the trench, the foundations of the post-medieval house that incorporated the standing remains of the infirmary and chapel were unearthed and the bottom of the robber trench for the infirmary wall was reached.
Trench 2
					In Trench 2 medieval deposits have been found in the small area east of the infirmary wall, and so outside the infirmary. These comprised a single layer of cobbling which may represent a yard surface. Our attention has now turned to the interior of the infirmary, where further evidence of Victorian excavations has been found.
Trench 3
In Trench 3 the Victorian garden features have been investigated. The massive brick wall, thought to have been 17th-18th century in date, proved to have been cut through the post-medieval deposits. This wall is now thought to date to the 1840s, and apparently formed the boundary of the Victorian garden established by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.