HS2: Digging up the 'Dark Ages'

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

An extraordinary discovery has been unearthed by archaeologists working alongside the HS2 rail project. The find, made at an undisclosed location near Wendover in the Chilterns, consists of a 5th-6th century burial site that has been described as one of the most important post-Roman, early medieval discoveries of our lifetime.

It offers the chance to see more clearly a part of British history that has been hidden from us until now. If there was a real, historical King Arthur, this is the part of history he's hiding within.

In this special episode, join our very own Dan Snow and Gone Medieval host Matt Lewis as they chat to the team behind the dig about some of their revelatory finds, and begin to see the people behind them, and the way they may have lived their lives.

A special thanks to HS2, INFRA and Fusion for giving History Hit special access behind the scenes!

The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. The Producer was Rob Weinberg. It was edited and mixed by Aidan Lonergan.

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0:00.0	Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.
0:05.6	The young gentleman's name would be...
0:08.3	Oliver. Oliver Twist.
0:10.7	...with Brian Cox as Fagan.
0:12.9	What have you seen? Street boy.
0:14.9	Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Callugher as Bill Sykes.
0:19.3	Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer.
0:21.3	I love you, Bill.
0:22.3	...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.
0:25.7	Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.
0:55.7	I know HS2 is a high-speed rail link for all you overseas folk listeners.
1:00.8	It's a high-speed rail link stretching from London to Birmingham,
1:05.1	the great city of the Midlands, the once mighty industrial powerhouse,
1:09.4	which gave Birmingham out of the Banner, it's nowhere to digress.
1:12.1	That's going to join those two cities together.
1:14.4	And it's been controversial because I'm believeably expensive.
1:16.9	It's taking a long time to build, etc.
1:19.2	But I've always liked it.
1:20.4	It's basically digging one gigantic archaeological trench down the spine of England.
1:25.2	And you can imagine England.
1:26.5	It's a lot of history here.
1:27.4	A lot of archaeologists, a lot of different periods.
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