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Dan Snow's History Hit

Digging Medieval Battlefields

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

History

4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How different is battlefield archaeology compared to other disciplines? Do local legends ever help track down evidence in a field? And why are potato fields in particular sometimes problematic for archaeologists? In this episode of History Hit's Gone Medieval podcast Sam Wilson, a specialist in battlefield and conflict archaeology, joins Matt Lewis to talk through his specialist work and explain more about some of his incredible discoveries.

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.

0:05.6

This episode of History Hit is one of our sibling podcasts, it's called Gone Medieval,

0:09.6

it's doing gangbusters, if you love medieval history it's a place need to be folks.

0:13.8

This episode is particularly brilliant one I think, so I've left it and put it on my

0:17.1

feet.

0:18.1

It features Sam Wilson, a specialist in battlefield and conflict archaeology, joining a very brilliant

0:23.8

host of this podcast Matt Lewis to talk about battlefield archaeology.

0:28.6

You may know, you may know that no trace of the battlefield of Hastings, 1066 battle

0:32.9

hazes, no trace of that battle has ever been found, which has led some lunatics to suggest

0:38.6

the battle took place elsewhere.

0:40.6

Well, in this episode you can hear about some of the challenges, some of the realities

0:45.0

of battlefield archaeology, why there is no trace of several other medieval battles in

0:50.0

fact as well.

0:51.0

But also he deals with whether local legends or oral history, tradition helps him to track

0:57.2

down battlefields.

0:59.4

It is a great episode, Sam is responsible for some truly remarkable discoveries, it is

1:04.1

exciting stuff, love a bit of medieval history and of course love, Gone Medieval with Matt

1:08.7

Lewis and Kat John, a two host of that brilliant hit new podcast.

1:12.3

If you want to listen to more medieval podcasts, we got loads of them available in History Hit

1:16.2

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1:21.2

a subscriber way, you get 30 days free if you subscribe now and you get all these other

1:26.0

podcasts.

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