The Land Rovers Podcast

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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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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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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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 Helmingham Hoard, and almost 2 years to the day that we found that gorgeous Iron Age gold stater while recording this very first episode, we hope you enjoy this new and improved version of the story.

Now with added Gold! And added Alice! Added history, and windy fields!

We'll be back soon when the plague has passed...

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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.

And it does so in the most spectacular way possible with one of the most incredible moments on the pod so far...

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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?

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When the boys get invited to walk the newly ploughed land at the mighty Roman fort Combretovium, they jump at the chance. It is George’s birthday after all, this is something he’s wished for, and what they discover littering the landscape is incredible.

But it doesn’t stop there - the old Roman road crosses the river at the end of the fields - so they finish the day waders on and waist deep in ancient waters…

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With Suffolk full of golden stubble, the boys head back to the site of a Medieval market which has already revealed stunning glimpses of its long and bustling past. They unearthed weights, buckles, coins and even Roman brooches the last time they were here (episode 18), so what's waiting under the clay this time?

One discovery they don't have to go digging for - a local eccentric antiquarian’s diaries, dusted off and brought along, offering tantalising new clues about the land, from strange finds and forgotten folklore to tales of peculiar Georgian remedies…

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After a year of waiting, the boys finally return to the site of their oldest ever find - a Bronze Age axehead.

But new research has uncovered some secrets that the landscape has been keeping… including evidence of a nearby and previously unknown Bronze Age settlement.

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We're now releasing the podcast weekly, it's the big 4-0 (40th episode) and we're celebrating in style - with one of our best finds ever!

The boys fire up the Landy and head to new fields in a small rural community where memory and story run deep. 

Here, the landscape has been farmed the same way for 1,000 years, and after sifting through old maps and records they set out to discover whether the clay cradles evidence of the village’s haunting past - from Roman burials to the Black Death. 

And incredibly, IT DOES. Strap in for an episode where a dream find is unearthed…

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