Carbon 14 dating on four skeletons from The Queen’s Hotel site, south of the River Ouse, and seven further individuals from the cemetery associated with St Benet’s Church on Swinegate have produced dates from the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian period. Pre-Conquest burials in York are surprisingly rare therefore these burials, together with four from Coppergate, two from Hungate and two from the cemetery at St Helen’s on the Walls, have been further analysed with others from across the City to find out more about life and death in the city 1,000 years ago.
This project gathered together the dating and pathology reports as well as some specialist research on associated small finds and coffins from the various sites to help start to paint a fuller picture of life and death in pre-Conquest York.
Excavation Report
Archaeological Investigations at 12-18 Swinegate, 14 Little Stonegate and 18 Back Swinegate
Osteological Report
Skeletons 15548,30944, 30979, and 36318. Coppergate 1981.7
Skeletons 13 and 49. Hungate 2006.5201
Skeleton numbers: 6064, 7118, 7137, 7147 and 7161 from The Queen’s Hotel, York 1989.17
Carbon-14 Reports
Anglo-Scandinavian burials from St Benet’s Church, Swinegate:
Sample Reference: 1989.28 context 3381
Sample Reference: 1990.28 context 3492
Sample Reference: 1990.1 context 14071
1-9 Micklegate, Queen’s Hotel:
Sample Reference: 1989.17 SK 6064
Sample Reference: 1989.17 SK 7118
Sample Reference: 1989.17 SK 7147
Sample Reference: 1989.17 SK 7137
16-22 Coppergate:
Sample Reference: 1982.22 Sk 1943
Sample Reference: 1981.7 SK 36318
Sample Reference: 1981.7 SK 30944
Sample Reference: 1981.7 SK 30979
Sample Reference: 1981.7 SK 15548
Sample Reference: 1981.7 SK 32803
St Helen’s on the Walls, Aldwark:
Specialist Reports
Isotope Analysis of the Coppergate Skeletons by G. Müldner
The Pre-Conquest Coffins from 12-19 Swinegate and 18 Back Swinegate by J.M. McComish
A Furnished Grave in the Cemetery of St Benet’s Church by N. Rogers
