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16th June 2008
Archaeologists excavate at Hungate
IT may be undergoing a 21st century makeover, but the team behind the Hungate scheme in York are ensuring that the history beneath our feet is not forgotten. Deputy Editor Ian Briggs reports.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS are often described as people able to help bring the past to life. And Peter Connelly is no exception.
If the project director behind one of the biggest digs in York's history is getting bored of showing people around the 10 acre Hungate site he's showing no signs of it.
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There is an interesting element of 21st Century hypocrisy in allowing the 12th Century church yard/cemetry to remain undisturbed but anticipating the unearthing of the secrets of the older Roman cemetry. Both are equally fascinating but why are Twelfth Century Christian remains more sacrosanct? They all once walked the same ground now being excavated and arguably we owe more to the Roman ancestor pioneers than to the medieval peasants in the Christian grave yard?
Jon Gordon
Don't think it's down to "hypocrisy" or indeed the Christian cemetery being more "sacrosanct"... as YAT's Peter Connelly points out in the article, they made a decision to preserve the 12th century graveyard "in situ", in anticipation of there being better ways to investigate it in the future. Indeed, the planning process now works to actively promote such preservation "in situ" of important remains and save what is a vital archaeological resource for generations to come. After all, they can't dig up everything...
edmund grenier