JORVIK Viking Centre
Underground Viking street rebuilt on its original dig site, toured by ride with sounds and smells.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the JORVIK Viking Centre in York goes back to the late nineteen seventies, when the site of a demolished sweet factory on Coppergate drew a constant stream of onlookers. It follows the archaeologists who worked in that black, waterlogged earth, the crowds who pressed against the barriers to see them, and what the ground had kept for a thousand years. You'll also hear how the dig changed the way historians picture the Vikings.
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