Went to A church in Micklegate in the centre of York yesterday.
My group was assigned to the cemetery section of the north side of the church. We recorded the positions of 3 flat graves and two table tombs. Due to the complex and raised nature of our area we had to plot a second base line using the methods we learnt for the first one as we couldn’t use the usual methods.
I very much enjoyed the mini lecture we had at the start of the day. I had no idea what buildings archaeology was like to begin with to be honest or what it involved. I found the whole thing very engaging and fascinating and it is a real possibility for my future career path at the moment.
The main thrust of the day was to draw a scale model plan of the churches north wall and its features by plotting their distance from a baseline and the drawing a scale model. As we were doing flat graves as opposed to other groups who plotted the walls all the grass made things very difficult.
After we plotted them we had a proper look at the graves, they were very old and worn but one was for a 3 year old girl, and it was a tiny tombstone as well. Interestingly the two table tombs were both for chemists and their families so it would be interesting to see what connection they had to the church and to each other. There were no obvious links from the inside of the church so i will look them up on the census data and see were they lived. One family, the Robinson's lost two children in 3 weeks so it seems there may have been an illness in the house. Also both graves contained elderly sisters of the main internee so it looks like spinsters lived long in York
In all a very good day!
I very much enjoyed the mini lecture we had at the start of the day. I had no idea what buildings archaeology was like to begin with to be honest or what it involved. I found the whole thing very engaging and fascinating and it is a real possibility for my future career path at the moment.
The main thrust of the day was to draw a scale model plan of the churches north wall and its features by plotting their distance from a baseline and the drawing a scale model. As we were doing flat graves as opposed to other groups who plotted the walls all the grass made things very difficult.
After we plotted them we had a proper look at the graves, they were very old and worn but one was for a 3 year old girl, and it was a tiny tombstone as well. Interestingly the two table tombs were both for chemists and their families so it would be interesting to see what connection they had to the church and to each other. There were no obvious links from the inside of the church so i will look them up on the census data and see were they lived. One family, the Robinson's lost two children in 3 weeks so it seems there may have been an illness in the house. Also both graves contained elderly sisters of the main internee so it looks like spinsters lived long in York
In all a very good day!
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