The Land Rovers: A History Hunting Podcast
A podcast about hunting for history, lost treasure and ordinary people discovering extraordinary objects.When it comes to unearthing history George Ridgway and Paul Jacobs have the pedigree.
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The Vanished Village (opens the original)
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Episode 48 THE LAND ROVERS PODCAST The Vanished Village We’re back out in glorious early autumn Suffolk, sun a little lower in the sky, the clay furrowed and inviting. We’re out exploring a really bonkers landscape this episode - and it starts with a one-of-a-kind church missing its village. So where was the original medieval village of Crowfield? The clues lie in the huge abandoned medieval moated manor just behind the church, and hopefully under those earthy furrows too… Subscribe wherever you
Storm Severus - EXTRA! (opens the original)
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Episode 47 THE LAND ROVERS PODCAST Storm Severus - EXTRA! Hi Everyone! We still haven't managed to get out together, hit the fields, and uncover new lost stories. Paul, like a Medieval peasant, is still struggling with plague (Covid), and George has been in Devon fossil hunting... BUT, again, we don't want to leave you empty handed so we've given episode 2 the same treatment as last week. And we've picked this one because it was already a cracker of an episode, and then, when we went back to the
The Helmingham Hoard - EXTRA! (opens the original)
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Episode 46 THE LAND ROVERS PODCAST The Helmingham Hoard - EXTRA Hi everyone. All the recent talk of plagues has brought one down on our own heads - Paul caught COVID and we haven't been able to hit the fields. But don't fear - we've done something we have been meaning to do for a while and re-cut our very first episode. BUT this isn't just a re-edit and sound improvement job - we've added a load of extra content you haven't heard before! So, almost 7 years to the day that George found the Helmin
Medieval Purse Spill (opens the original)
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Episode 45 THE LAND ROVERS PODCAST Medieval Purse Spill Armed with two contrasting but incredible sources - Julius Caesar's account of his invasions of Britain and a recent archaeological report about a modern housing estate - the boys hit some new land right next to the site of a once flourishing Iron Age settlement. But, as ever, the story the landscape has has to tell takes them in a completely different direction - out of the smoke filled Romano-British roundhouses and firmly into the 1300's
The Black Death (opens the original)
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Episode 44 THE LAND ROVERS PODCAST The Black Death Armed with new revelations about the incredible medieval pilgrim’s ampulla discovered in episode 40, the boys return to the mysterious field that kept it secret for almost 700 years. Are there more echoes of the Black Death lurking beneath the clay? Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! For images and videos of everything we discuss and discover, head to our instagram: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelandroverspodcast And find links
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