School Green Training Excavation - York Archaeology

School Green’s debut season took us on a journey to medieval York, via a Victorian school. This summer, we’re going back!

School Green was once the site of the Hope Street British School, which taught local pupils skills like operating the electric telegraph between 1827 and 1890. We were unsure how much of the structure survived, if any, but intact brickwork was discovered, just centimetres beneath the grass.

As the team worked through deposits associated with the school, a suite of earlier structures and surfaces were slowly exposed. The date of these is yet to be determined, but the stonework, brick and tile appears to be medieval. This will be a key focus of the 2025 season, not least because the lost medieval church of St. Peter-in-the-Willows may have occupied part of the site!