Tuesday, May 12, 2015

York

James and I spent the day in York. The first part of the day we walked the city walls. The walls have been preserved and are mostly complete. We then went to #Jorvik which is an excavation and recreation of the Viking trading post that was here in around 900 AD. It was really interesting to see the layers of "dirt" from other times to get down to the Viking era. It was about 6 metres of material. Of course below the Vikings material were the Romans and Anglo Saxons material, the Romans were another 2 - 3 metres below the Vikings.

James was not feeling well so we just sat around in the afternoon waiting for our train at 5:30.