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This season, we're excited to take a deep dive into the dig that started it all - the Coppergate excavation! Hear from the archaeologists who worked on the site as well as Peter Addyman, founding director of York Archaeological Trust who was instrumental in keeping the excavation going.
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04/23/21 • 27 min
That JORVIK Viking Thing Podcast - The Coppergate Excavation: Tales from the Trenches
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In 1976, an old Victorian sweets factory located on Coppergate, in the centre of York was slated for demolition. As part of the construction agreement, archaeologists were on hand to make sure that nothing deemed historically significant would be destroyed in the process. What lay only inches beneath the concrete foundations, however, would change our understanding of Vikings and their impact on Britain forever. In Viking times, a "thing" was a gathering a place where leaders
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