York’s Finest: The Ormside Bowl

• Wednesday 10 June 2015, 2.00PM to 3.00pm
• £5, Museum admission applies
• Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens (map)

All galleries are fully accessible but the reading room and historic library are not accessible to wheelchairs. Please contact us on 01904 697979 if you wish to access these facilities and we will do our best to help you.

Event details

A very special chance to discover the story of this Anglian ecclesiastical bowl, which became a Viking drinking vessel.  The Ormside Bowl is one of the most celebrated treasures of the Yorkshire Museum and there is opportunity to see it up close, and handle Anglian and Viking artefacts from the Museum’s collections.

Additional links

Find out more about York Museums Trust on the website and Twitter.

Eoforwic Ale

Using an authentic Anglo-Saxon recipe, Leeds Brewery is brewing some beer – Eoforwic Ale – for York Festival of Ideas. It will be on sale throughout the Festival at the Duke of York pub on King’s Square, York, and will also be available at the Back to the Beer-Hall: More Anglo-Saxon Poetry evening taking place in the pub on Thursday 11 June.

Guerilla Signs: In search of Anglian York

Eoforwic was the name for York during the four and a half centuries between Roman York and the Viking city. This period, the Anglian (or Anglo-Saxon) era was long, yet there are few visible reminders of it in the modern city. Guerilla signs made by the Friends of York’s Anglian Era will appear along the city walls and elsewhere near the city centre, to highlight the buried evidence and lost treasures of that time.