National Highway’s A63 Castle Street Improvement is a £355m infrastructure scheme to enhance the busy main arterial route through the historic East Yorkshire port city of Kingston upon Hull.
Significant archaeological remains across the 2km-long project include the medieval Old Town, the Civil War siegeworks, and the listed Georgian docks, plus Trinity Burial Ground and the town gaol, the last two both founded in 1785.
Oxford Archaeology, together with Humber Field Archaeology, has been working collaboratively and effectively with a range of stakeholders on the project since 2013. We’ve successfully incorporated innovative approaches and disciplines into our work, which has involved heritage management, geoarchaeology, and funerary archaeology, as well as education and outreach.
Our early involvement has been a major plank in the success of the project, allowing us to gain understanding, apply knowledge, and develop crucial relationships with a range of stakeholders, both within the construction team, and with those responsible for monitoring and approving the conditions of the development consent order.