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South of Exhibition Square on Museum Street stands the entrance to the Yorkshire Museum (daily 10am-5pm; GBP4.50), which lies within the beautifully laid-out grounds of St Mary's Abbey, itself now in ruins. It's one of York's better museums, strong on archeological remains which it presents in a series of rooms examining the Roman presence in the city. There are impressive displays of Viking and Anglo-Saxon artefacts, too, though chief exhibit is the fifteenth-century Middleham Jewel, found near Middleham Castle in 1985 - claimed as the finest piece of Gothic jewellery in England. Part of the museum basement incorporates the fireplace and chapter house of St Mary's Abbey (dawn to dusk; free), whose ruins lie around the Museum Gardens, the abbey's former grounds. Founded around 1080, the abbey later became an important Benedictine foundation, additionally significant as it was from here that disenchanted monks fled to found Fountains Abbey.
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