In this special episode, recorded live in front of an audience at the Chalke Valley History Festival, Robbie Stamp introduces three stories from Britain's Anglo Saxon past.
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Wilton Abbey
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Salisbury
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Wiltshire
Friends Live on Earth – Wynflaed's Will
On the boundary of the parishes of Swallowcliffe and Ansty
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Swallowcliffe Down
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Wiltshire
They Borrowed a Barrow
Written by
Robbie
Stamp
Performed by
Robbie
Stamp
Delve Deeper
About this story
Based on the excavation of a Bronze Age Barrow in 1966 and the remarkable finds of jewelry and objects belonging to the “Swallowcliffe Princess" who died c 700 AD, this story imagines how the bed burial might have happened.
The Stove Tent, Chalke Valley History Festival Site
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Church Farm
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Bury Lane
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Broad Chalke
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Wiltshire
Before You Can Beat the Bounds, You Have to Read Them
Written by
Robbie
Stamp
Performed by
Olivia
Bell
Delve Deeper
The Language of Landscape Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside website has the text and a translation of the text that Olivia Bell reads.
About this story
In the 10th-Century a legal document was drawn up outlining new ownership boundaries in the Chalke Valley area. With a special introduction from reknowned archaeologist Alex Langlands, we hear the reading of words not heard in the Chalke Valley for over a thousand years.
