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The Danelaw Village
Living history at York
Danelaw Village is a recreated Dark Age village situated at the Yorkshire Farming Museum at Murton, York. Built during the past 9 years, in the main by volunteers, the village now consists of about twenty buildings ranging from dwellings to workshops.
| The site is open to the public daily, with various groups (Combrogi included) visiting throughout the year to help build and maintain the dwellings, populate the village and provide an in-depth knowledge of the numerous facets of Viking life. |
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The museum has presented us with one of the houses to provide Combrogi with a permanent presence on the village - our house is a gruben style dwelling. One of our group has built his own house on the village - Snorriholm is a large house with a woodshed and garden, right beside the main street.
The site is visited regularly by school parties who are shown that life in the dark ages was not all battle and raids. The main enemy facing the people of the time was starvation, consequently the children are taught the importance of guard duty, grinding flour, pottery skills and farming.
A Roman Fort, Brigantium, has been built in the field behind the Danelaw Village. Here, the children
learn how the Roman Army lived and worked. A Celtic roundhouse is there too, complete with
stockade and occasionally some livestock. Both represent the ways of life of people in Britain
at the beginning of the first millennium. The Roman Fort sometimes doubles as a Wild West fort and is inhabited by nineteenth
century US soldiers. This is eminently suitable as the US frontier forts were built to the
Roman pattern.
The Danelaw Village can be contacted at:-
Introduction to Combrogi - Combrogi News
Murton Park
Murton Lane
YORK YO19 5UF
Tel: 01904 489966 Fax: 01904 489159
Danelaw News - Gallery
Viking Crafts - Contact Us
