Hundreds of monuments were recorded and carefully moved to storage. A tent was built over the 3000m2 area to ensure that the excavation of the largest assemblage of funerary remains from northern England, comprising thousands of skeletons, coffins, and artefacts from earth graves and brick tombs, could be undertaken privately. A bespoke compound was established, where the funerary remains could be washed, dried, x-rayed, stored, and recorded for analysis by our specialists, before being reburied on site, as requested by the Church. This complex process was aided by our self-designed digital system that efficiently integrated on-site recording and the tracking of funerary remains through processing, permitting them to be reunited to ensure that individual skeletons were reburied with their personal effects.
By the end of the excavations, the team had recovered, assessed, and reburied the remains of at least 8791 individuals, 1500 of whom were analysed in the on-site laboratory, with a proportion sampled for ancient DNA and isotopes.
Since the end of the excavations, we have been analysing the findings to understand the lives of Hull's residents between 1785 and 1861. The stories we uncovered include possible female boxers, evidence of surgical amputation, evidence of body snatching and anatomisation, and the remains of probable victims of a shipping disaster. You can read more about the people and their personal possessions here
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/.../a63-castle-street.../
Colleagues and experts at Archaeology at Durham University and The Francis Crick Institute continue to carry out new research on the evidence from Trinity Burial Ground, always uncovering exciting new details about the past of Kingston upon Hull.