The Land Rovers Podcast

Episode 51
THE LAND ROVERS PODCAST

Ashes in the Moat

We're back around Kenton Hall this week, a glorious Tudor fronted manor house with more than a few secrets scattered around the tumbling landscape that surrounds it.

Not too long ago extensive field walking turned up hundreds of sherds of Roman pottery in and around the moat itself, and what was clear from wider archaeology was that the hall was the very heart of a wider Roman rural landscape. It stayed the heart of this community for centuries, with layer upon layer of history cradled by the silty water and surrounding clay.

Then, in 1919, disaster struck: the hall burned to the ground, leaving just the grand Tudor facade that greets us today, and another layer of history was engulfed by the moat. But this year, following the extraordinary summer we've had, the water is so low there's a once in a generation chance to walk the banks and unearth some of those secrets.

And we simply couldn't say no!

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Episode 50
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Blood Fields

Just outside the village of Debenham the undulating slopes of Suffolk hide a potentially bloody secret. Around here sits the Blood Landscape - a whole host of ancient plots hinting at something terrible and gruesome: Little Blood Field, Great Blood Field, Blood Hall, Blood Hall Way, Blood Wood, all circling Blood Hill, which stands guard at the top of the valley.

Locals tell the story of a ferocious battle being fought here in 869 between King Edmund's Anglo-Saxon forces and the great Viking Heathen Army of Ivar the Boneless. It could even be the mythical Haegilisdun, the lost site of Edmund's death and miraculous, Saintly recovery.

Fanciful, isn't it? Except that in the 1800's ancient weapons, bones and iron fittings were ploughed up and the assumption was that it was this discovery that gave the landscape its bloody name. So, naturally, we were giddy at the prospect of recording our 50th episode here, telling this story, and exploring whether any further clues lie under the clay...

...and that was BEFORE we discovered a whole load of new mind-boggling clues about the age of this landscape.
We weren't about to solve one of history's greatest mysteries, were we...?

If you enjoy this episode, you might like to check out these as well:
Episode 39. King Rædwald's River.
Where we explore the river Deben, home to the great Anglo-Saxon treasures of Sutton Hoo.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/58HvSavPcdSXkWSkth9s4V?si=siKDF6ncR-OBFYniys3E5w

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/king-r%C3%A6dwald-s-river/id1794754013?i=1000778644546

Episode 40. A Pilgrim's Treasure.
Where we unearth one of the most incredible medieval artefacts we've ever seen.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2J7a3cRG9LH07hsBx1tlfC?si=yIx4dxIBRyOgxqJ7foSQDA

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-pilgrims-treasure/id1794754013?i=1000779813903

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Episode 49
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Gold on the Moat

Suffolk is dotted with Medieval moated sites - echos of a building boom in the 13th and 14th centuries that has left the ghosts of these structures in the landscape. We've got one in a field we keep being drawn back to that we've never fully explored, but today's the day! And, boy, are we pleased we finally got round to it.

Well, one of us is. There's gold, silver and bronze under the clay for one of us. And for the other?
A terrible ancient curse caused by pulling an old fork out of a tree trunk.

Don't believe us? Just listen...

Here are the links to the other episodes we mention in this one. Check them out:

Episode 45. Medieval Purse Spill
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qdLz9HptPnBQ9h8hgvviq?si=apxU4BTeSeu2etjG-7owkQ

Episode 31. Iron Age Gold
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vNc8OO5aFLill5NdUCw7I?si=2FtA39JdRRy5S1CA_gtcyA

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Episode 48
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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…

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Episode 47
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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 recordings, we realised that we'd left so much out! So here is a revamped Storm Severus for you, featuring one of the most incredible Roman coins we've ever seen...

And it made us think - if you're new around here, then first up - Welcome!
All our previous episodes stand alone, please do go digging in our back catalogue and listen to some of them, there's some amazing stories, landscapes and history beneath our feet.

To start with try:

Episode 18.
Medieval Madness where we uncover a lost medieval market, unearth two gorgeous silver coins and prove the site dates back even further when we discover a Roman brooch.

or

Episode 8.
The Horlicks Hoard. A dried up pond and a lost Victorian lunchbox and toolkit make this one of our most memorable episodes.

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