Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Know's History Head. I've just run enough to beach. I've

spent all day filming a new show for History Head TV. We've been going up and down the

South Coast of England. Looking for D-Day Embarcation areas. The archaeology of D-Day

that a lot of it about. There are tanks that sunk during exercises. There are shipwrecks

of D-Day landing craft that were brought back here and discarded. There are huge eroding

concrete slabs leading into the sea slowly being nought away by the ocean where once, on

the 3rd and 4th, the 5th of June 1944, men and vehicles loaded for the greatest amphibious

assault of all time. For some of those men, it would be the last time they ever touched

dry ground. Some never made it to the beaches. It's been a very special project. You can

obviously subscribe to HistoryHit.tv in order to watch that documentary which is going

out on the anniversary of D-Day. However, HistoryHit.tv and check it out. But in the meantime,

I've got a very special poll for you. I've got Dr. Kat Jarman. She's been on the poll

to perform many times. She's just written her wonderful book about Viking Age. In fact,

her book was so brilliant, we invited her to start a medieval pod for team HistoryHit

along with Matt Lewis, one of our other favourite medieval historians. In a little introduction,

I talked Kat a little bit about the medieval period, about Vikings, about her new pod,

and how she thinks she might have discovered another brand new Viking site in the north of

England. This everyone is Kat Jarman and she is going medieval in joy. Kat, great to

every back of the pod. Great to be back. Okay, the big question that people have been asking

me, when is the medieval period? Right, so there's lots of different ways of defining it.

Yes, let's go. Okay, broadly speaking, we could say from pretty much after the Roman period,

so round about 500 AD-ish and then go all the way up to 1500 AD and that's the very wide view

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