How do people become full time archaeologists?
So how can people in North Yorkshire get involved? There are various digs that happen which have public access, so people can go there and take a look at exhibitions and go on site tours. They can watch archaeologists in action. That includes school visits and hands-on activities for kids. We did one recently with the Roman site at Moss Street in York which all the kids really enjoyed. There’s also the Archaeological Resource Centre where people can go and visit.There are increasingly more excavations that have activities and public access. Is York a good place to excavate? It can be. The area where there was the highest concentration of inhabitation, the area around the fortress, you don’t very often get to the necessary depth to reach the Roman level. But if you go further out than the Roman core, outside the city walls, there’s lots of developments happening around the remains of the Roman city which often hit the Roman cemeteries which would have been just outside the Roman walls.
