That JORVIK Viking Thing Podcast - The Coppergate Excavation: Tales from the Trenches

The Coppergate Excavation: Tales from the Trenches

04/23/21 • 27 min

Welcome back to That Jorvik Viking Thing podcast!
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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The Coppergate Excavation: Viking Finds

We're continuing our deep dive on the Coppergate Excavation and talking to Rachel Cutler, Interpretations Assistant and Viking Interpreter here at the Jorvik Viking Centre. She tells us about four star Viking-age finds from the dig and gives a little more context of just how many things came out of the ground.

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That JORVIK Viking Thing Podcast - The Coppergate Excavation: Tales from the Trenches

Transcript

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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