Yorkshire Museum
Archaeology museum of Roman, Viking and medieval treasures set in ruined abbey gardens.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Yorkshire Museum in York centres on one gold pendant and the September evening in nineteen eighty-five when a metal detectorist, trailing his friends back to the car on a North Yorkshire bridle path, heard his machine beep. It turns to Middleham Castle, the northern home of Richard the Third, and to the women of the House of York who might once have worn such a thing. Stand close to the case and look at both engraved faces.
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