Digging for Britain with Professor Alice Roberts
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The First Evidence of Anglo-Saxons
i visited saint mary's at stake manderville before they started excavating, and then went back this sear when they'd got down just below the norman foundations. And that was really exciting because actually, on the day i turned up, one of the archaeologists, shirley mihalover, found a silver penny with the head of ethelred the second on it. I mean, i kind of joked with them actually, i joked to them on sight with rachel wood, who was the archaeologist running the site, and guy hunt and said, oh, you know, just keep going underneath the norman church. You've got anglo saxon archaology
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