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Home | Out of London Attractions | Jorvik Viking Centre |
| Prices: | | Ticket Type | Price | Adult | £8.50 | Child (5-16) | £6.00 | Senior/Student | £7.00 | Family* | £26.00 |
* Two adults and two children
Tour Highlights:
Be transported through the Viking City of Jorvik
Travel through the busy Coppergate market place
Disembark at the JORVIK museum
Visit DIG, the archaeological adventure attraction
Days of Operation:
Open Daily
10am - 5pm (summer)
10am - 4pm (winter)
New Years Eve: 10am - 2pm (last admission)
New Years Day: 11am - 4pm (last admission)
Closed
24/25/26th December
Please note from 1st November 2009 – 31st January 2010, The Jorvik Viking Centre is undergoing refurbishment and will also be totally closed in January 2010, re-opening in February 2010.
Travel BACK 1000 years on board your time machine through the backyards and houses to the bustling streets of Jorvik. Everything here is based on facts – from the layout of the houses, the working craftsmen, the language of the gossiping neighbours, to the smells of cooking and the cesspit!
As you travel through the busy market place, you will experience a blast of smoke as you pass the blacksmith's furnace, smell the fish on the riverside and visit the hearth scene inside the Viking home. You are in JORVIK!
Everything in JORVIK Viking Centre is based on archaeological evidence unearthed during the Coppergate excavations undertaken between 1979–81 by York Archaeological Trust.
Archaeologists started digging on the site of an old sweet factory and unearthed remains of 10th century Viking-age buildings that were surrounded by moist, spongy layers of earth similar to that of a peat bog.
These damp conditions helped preserve everyday Viking items such as wood, leather, cloth, bugs and even a Viking toilet and its contents. In total, an incredible 40,000 objects were uncovered by excavating 36,000 layers and sieving 8 tonnes of soil!
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