Antiq J 54 (2)

The first year's campaign of rescue excavations by the York Archaeological Trust included work on a Roman sewer and ?baths within the legionary fortress, and examination of the SW defences and some extra-mural settlement of the fortress. Anglo-Scandinavian York was represented in a 10-metre depth of deposits including stratified, 14C-dated timber buildings and much palaeoecological detail. Land between Skeldergate and the Ouse proved to have been a late medieval reclamation; at Newbiggin part of the medieval suburb was examined; and in Union Terrace was a site successively used by a 12th/early 13th-century building, a Carmelite church, the Hospital of St Mary, and a school. Au(abr)

[TR 2865]. The brooch found when mechanical trench digging disturbed a large AS cemetery is a large composite disc brooch made of electrum, silver and gilded bronze set with garnets, blue glass and shell. Its design, construction and gold content suggest manufacture no earlier than c AD 640-50. Au(abr)

Two lost hoards, one of gold, the other of silver, were found a few yards apart on Hare Island, Lough Ree (Co Westmeath). The gold hoard can be shown, from letters and engravings of early-mid 19th century, to have weighed about 5 kilos, i.e. the largest Viking gold hoard known.