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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Suspected medieval alehouse unearthed in east Yorkshire

Volunteers at work excavating a field which, surveys have shown, contains more than a dozen buried dwellings
Volunteers spent three weeks excavating a field which, surveys have shown, contains more than a dozen buried dwellings. Photograph: Ethos Heritage

Archaeologists believe they may have found the remains of a medieval alehouse or inn on a dig uncovering what could be one of the UK’s best-preserved deserted medieval villages.

The archaeological work at a field in High Hunsley, near Beverley in east Yorkshire, is a dig with a difference in that a key motivation of organisers has been to get new people involved in heritage projects.

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