York Archaeological Trust has begun excavations as part of the Hungate (York) Regeneration. Over the next five years excavations and research will be conducted on the largest scale urban archaeological excavation in the city for 25 years. Following the great success of Archaeology Live! training excavations at previous sites in the City of York, St Leonard’s (2001–2004), St Mary’s Abbey (2005) St Saviour’s Church (2006), Archaeology Live! will be running in conjunction the excavations at Hungate during 2007 and beyond. You have the unique opportunity to join in with this exciting journey in to the last 2000 years of the history of York. The excavation will be looking to answer a number of questions about the site, which has proven to contain deeply stratified archaeology from the Roman period onwards. Small-scale excavations in 2000 and 2002 revealed a complex sequence of burials, structures, occupation deposits and road surfaces dating from as early as the 3rd Century. Significant archaeology, including the burials, lay relatively close to the modern ground surface and was generally well preserved. Excavation which is currently underway has revealed the outlines of buildings and other structures from the 18th and 19th Centuries, with finds including medieval and Viking pottery, carved animal bone, and significant amounts of architectural stone which has been re-used from a medieval church. The Archaeology Live! training excavation will run from July 2nd until September 21st 2007 and is open to anybody over the age of 16 (16 is negotiable, please contact below). People can come for as long as they want, be it for a one-day taster or a module over several weeks. * We will also be offering other training courses outside of the summer season for Archaeology Live! so please contact us for more information. The training will include excavation, recording, planning, finds processing, environmental sampling, and processing. Depending on the progress made on site there may also be additional training in the excavation and processing of human remains, waterlogged deposits, preserved timber structures, and historical archaeology. Any specific requests for training can be made and professional field archaeologists provide all the training that is offered. It is important to mention that during Archaeology Live! the archaeology will be excavated and recorded by the trainees; the trainers are there purely to teach and assist when required. It is a field-based training program where people learn by doing the excavation, discovering, and recording the archaeology themselves, rather than by taking classroom based tuition. For more information contact: Training Dig, York Archaeological Trust, 47 Aldwark, YORK, YO1 7BX, ENGLAND e-mail: trainingdig@yorkarchaeology.co.uk Mobile: +44 (0) 7908 210026 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 663024 Web: http://www.dighungate.com Web: http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk Forum: http://yorkdig.proboards21.com/