[Gus] It's day two at Winfarthing in Norfolk
where Helen has brought the team together to investigate the site of a grave of a 7th
Century Anglo-Saxon woman. It was discovered by Tom Lucking in 2015 buried
with some stunning finds. [Helen] This is the massive gold pendant,
I know it's absolutely extraordinary. [Gus] Jackie's analysis of the bones tells
us that she lived a long and healthy life and even gives us a glimpse into what she
may have looked like. [Jackie] Lovely little little feminine square
chin at the front, tiny square chin very light cures actually. [Gus] Our excavations have uncovered at least
one other grave so we could be looking at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. [Jackie] A head would come up here, yeah,
so if all we've got is that then we've lost an awful lot. [Gus] It seems the site of this important
burial is gradually being ploughed away, so every new find is incredibly important. [Helen] Oh gosh! We're looking at a.... oh I want to burst
into tears... [Gus] It's the beginning of the day and in
Trench 1, Matt and Tom are opening up a bigger area in search of traces of the grave of our
Winfarthing woman. [Matt] Right this is it, fingers crossed,
all of them! [Gus] But there's still no sign of the 2015
excavation, the grave or a ring ditch. [Matt] No definitely not there. [Tom] It's interesting that she's not...there's
actually not much, I mean we know we're in the right ballpark but there's obviously not
much else going on around her. [Gus] Further down the slope in Trench 2
the overnight watering is helping Jackie and Hilde make out the grave cut of the burial
they found yesterday. [Hilde] You can really see the colours as well
and the edges or what remains of the edges a lot better now. [Jackie] We're right at the bottom of the
grave, so it looks really narrow as we're right at the bottom as it's so shallow but
it has made it stand out. And I think obviously the skull is going to
have gone, but all we can do is investigate and see what's surviving there and what we
can tell from it. Delicate operations! [Hilde] And there's no point leaving it in
situ because it'll just get destroyed. [Jackie] Yeah it's so shallow, it's right
on the interface between the plough soil and the natural, I mean this would be gone in
another couple of years completely with the ploughing of it so.... [Gus] So Helen, John I see you've got a digger
ready, so what's the plan for today? [Helen] Well the plan for today is to treat
this field like any other field and just have the question what is in this field and reply
a standard technique. [John] I mean up until now we've been led
by work that's been done in the past, so what we want to do is investigate our geophysics
now. We've got this clear ditch which we think
is sort of shown on the early maps, isn't it. And at this point here there might just be
the hints of a square feature, so we thought a trench that takes in that response and goes
over the ditch as well. If it is a square feature it would be very
interesting from a Saxon cemetery point of view. [Helen] Certainly! [John] But it is a long shot! [Matt] Right so we should have two intercutting
ditches here... [Gus] So Matt moves his attention to Trench 3 to see whether the square featuring geophys or the ditch had anything to do with
the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery. [Gus] Stewart's been scouring the landscape
for an Anglo-Saxon open-air parliament which confusingly is called a thing or a ting in
Old English. Sam Newton believes that this thing could
be the key to our story, Stewart's begun his survey in the village of Shelfanger and has
spotted a significant field name on the maps. [Stewart] This little strip of field alongside,
this hedge line, this parish boundary is called Pilgrim Meadow which is a very very interesting
name. Is that a legacy of some memory of people
visiting this place for burial? A long lasting folklore, but to retain a name
like that in this landscape where most of the field names are just descriptions of the
sizes of fields - like four acre or six acre field actually raises the possibility that
this has been a historic route way of some form or another in an early landscape. [Gus] And as he walks down to the stream he's
getting a very different perspective on the landscape. [Stewart] I'm almost totally enclosed, I'm
in a hollow in the landscape, I can't see out to the east, I can't see out to the West
- to the north the landscape rises again so I'm at the feeling I'm within sort of a large
bowl in the landscape. [Gus] He's following the course of the river
along the streamline, past our site. [Stewart] What's interesting when you get
down to the stream and looking up towards the head of the valley is how it does look
as if you're heading into a almost like an alcove in the landscape, and the further you
walk into that alcove the narrower this this valley actually becomes. And the further I walk, in reality the higher
the burial appears up on the the slope up to my right. [Gus] He's making his way to Winfarthing
itself where they've got a good number of test pits underway. [Gus] To look for Anglo-Saxon activity near
the church. [Group] chatting. Oh what do we got here? Looks like pottery doesn't it? [Gus] And as the archaeology and the finds
get more interesting there's a competitive edge emerging. [Lady] I think we're all coming, we're all
listening out to see what anybody else finds. [Man] It's a competition. [Lady] I found a little bit of competition
when I found out that their hole was deeper than ours. Yes yes, it makes it makes you sort of like
um swing that matic a bit it's a bit harder. [Man] With the pit so far, which has the the
most interesting find? So what is the most interesting find? The thing we're very excited with that, we
think late Anglo-Saxon fragments... [Gus] And one of our volunteers has experience
of Anglo-Saxon finds, in fact he dug with Basil Brown the man who found the graves at
Sutton Hoo. [Volunteer] I knew Basil for about 25 years,
a great gentile man full of knowledge. Yeah he said what you must do is keep your
edges straight on a section, so this is what I do. [Gus] Back on site in Trench 3, Matt thinks
the square feature on the geophys was just geology but the ditch is looking more promising. [Matt] Well I would say Linzi, we've got
the ditch here. [Linzi] Yeah nice clear ditch coming through. [Matt] Yeah so should we clear up the edges? Kind of along there your, that side looks
a bit straighter doesn't it? [Matt] But it's pretty good chalky stuff,
oh flipping heck it's rock solid, ha ha ha! [Matt] If it is Medieval and there's medieval
stuff in it, it's going to be right at the base I guess yeah, right at the base and where
it's silted up and then this upper stuff... it's just kind of...yeah fairly recent. [Gus] As part of our investigations we're
creating a virtual museum, in it we're collecting finds that help to tell the story of the Winfarthing
woman, and I'm curious to find out what the purpose was for the chateline rings that ran
from her waist to her knee. [Helen] That's them in close up and they weren't
linked together, they were all separate and they're decorated on both faces with these
stamped circles which is quite a common stamp shape. [Gus] And are they purely decorative or did
they have any purpose? [Helena Hamerow] Well I'm always reluctant
to say anything is purely decorative, you know they may well have had some kind of symbolic
meaning, the fact that they sometimes have keys or kind of symbolic keys attached to
them. So they may be meant to reflect something
about the special role of the woman in the household. [Helen] They can have practical things, I
mean well our woman has got a knife at her waist but sometimes there's a knife on the
end of this, and so you can imagine that's quite handy - you hold your knives on a chain
kind of thing, you can never lose it. Carrying on with the symbolism theme, moving
up to her neck she's got in addition to the great big pendant, she's got this little short
choker necklace as well and two of the pendants are made out of Frankish coins. [Gus] So who's depicted on the coin? [Helen] Well the coin is struck by Sigevert
the Third, so Helena is this the Royal head of Sigevert the Third? [Helena Hamerow] Well we assume that this
is meant to evoke the king of the Franks, but of course it looks terribly Roman in a
way doesn't it? He's wearing a diadem, he's got something
around his neck, so I think he's meant to look quite Roman. But I think we are meant to understand that
he is in fact the king of the Franks and the person under whom this coin was struck. [Helen] And it's been converted into a pendant
by the addition of this loop, held on by a gold rivet. [Gus] And what's on the reverse side, let's
turn it over? [Helen] This is really interesting isn't it
Helena, because it's got a cross. Now I think if we had just come across that
cold we might have wondered if the cross was shown to indicate one thing or the hedge was
shown. It's on both sides, as excavated it was the
head facing out, not the cross. The last thing, in the middle of this little
choker necklace is this rather marvellous gold pendant, and I think something that you'll
like Helena on the back if I can turn it over and move it around a bit. So you can really see there's a repair patch
just there, yeag you can see that very clearly. [Helena] Well that is really interesting because
in quite a lot of these rich 7th Century female graves you have got very posh jewellery that's
been broken, sometimes it's been repaired, sometimes it's not been repaired. But it was clearly relatively old and well
loved and well worn at the point which it was buried, and and you wonder whether actually
the importance of these objects was actually enhanced by the fact that it was old and had
been around for a while. Maybe passed through several generations who
knows? [Gus] The finds were clearly well used, precious
and suggest an International influence as well as Pagan and Christian iconography. Derek and Lawrence are going to see what else
the grave goods can tell us using x-ray fluorescence, because the chemical makeup should reveal
information that is invisible to the naked eye. It's possible that the striking similarities
of our lady's pendant with jewelry from Sutton Hoo could indicate Winfarthing benefited from
Royal patronage, the quality of the gold might help to confirm this theory. And whether the bowl was made of bronze or
brass could tell us if it was made in the Byzantine world or in East Anglia [Music]. [Gus] The bottom of the bowl fell apart on
excavation but fragments were preserved along with the soil from inside it, so Naomi has
been sifting through the contents to see what she could find. [Naomi] So right now it's a little bit confusing,
a bit intriguing.. [Gus] And in amongst the green metal of the
bowl itself she found some organic material. [Naomi] So yeah I'm not sure what this this
woody material is, it's a bit confusing. It could have been sort of a lining or even
the bowl could have been sat inside this wooden thing? Really not sure, I've never seen anything
like this, so yeah more and more intrigue. But this is why a lot of stuff happens in
post excavation that's when you get your answers. [Gus] It's painstaking work, but knowing the
contents of this unusual bowl could unlock so much about our Winfarthing woman. [Gus] Back in the trenches they're confident
that there's more than one burial in Trench 2. [Hilde] So we've got the burial in the middle
but you've just found this other possible feature running in the same alignment. [Volunteer] Yeah, the top of the grave cut
seems to be aligned with the top of that one there. I started cleaning this back to about here
and then I noticed that there was a sort of shadow and I thought it was the Sun. But then the sun's gone in now and yeah it's
definitely really well defined, and yeah I'm just gonna just clean it back a bit more and
see where we go. [Hilde] It definitely looks a bit suspicious
as well. [Gus] On the other side of the trench Jackie
has been working away on another burial. [Jackie] I've got more than one bone now because
I've got one down here but I've also got another couple up here and although it's in awful
condition, but it does suggest that it might be articulated. But it's right on the surface, I can't see
a cut a feature that it relates to at all, it's right on that subsoil but interestingly
it's not the same alignment of that grave that we found there. Or where you are over there. [Hilde] But still possibly three graves. [Jackie] Yeah yeah, I mean I think we have..
it is now starting to look more like a cemetery than just singletons, just run off burials. [Gus] In Trench 3 attempts to get down into
the ditch that Matt found earlier are being hampered by the solid ground. But a sudden rainstorm has come to our aid. [Voices] How many people can you get under
one canvas tent... they're three absolute pros over there still digging away in the
rain... [Gus] Taking refuge in the dome, Helens begun
the lengthy process of cleaning the Buckle that was found yesterday in Trench 2. [Gus] And would this have been for a belt
or... [Helen] It's some kind of strap but they're
normally found at the waist so it's thought of as a belt fitting, but because these are
found almost always with men there is sometimes a hint that it may have been some kind of
sword belt. And what I'm hoping is that there's going
to be some kind of decoration underneath here and these can range from appliqued separate
components, you know like sometimes there's one amazing one where there's a little model
of a fish. Um to just stamp decoration or all sorts of
things, what we're seeing here is the tops of two rivets - this one looks like it's got
a decorative boss covering it, this one looks like it's lost that boss. You can almost see the shaft of the rivet
and then there's a third one on the bottom here. We've actually got to the point where I'd
quite like to see this under a microscope rather than just doing with the naked eye
so, um bring it into focus. Oh wonderful to watch it there lovely! Now if I point with my little thorn can you
see the there's a straight edge along there. [Gus] Yes
[Helen] And that is the the hinge that's joining this cast frame to this sheet plate. [Gus] Is that the hinge? [Helen] Well this is the end of the strap,
the end of the under plate so you've got to imagine the strap coming up under between
where I'm poking so if there was any straps surviving this is where it would be coming
this is where it would be now what we don't understand is what's between these two sandwiches
these two pieces of bread so to speak what is the filling in that sounds why have we
got two layers that's not normal at this point I left Helen to go visit the test pits leaving
the cameras to keep recording we're just getting one of those odd time team effects now where
you carry on doing something when you'd normally stop because somebody's filming you and they
just need a few more minutes of film and I had thought I'd got as far as I could with
this and I'm just gently gently gently brushing and tiny tiny bits of soil are coming off
imperceptibly virtually and they're revealing more detail and I think I've got something
I completely hand spotted before which is a possible possible repair and a lot more decoration is coming out but
it's just about visible the after the dig X-ray revealed more detail of what appears
to be a highly decorated Buckle it tells us at least one man was buried in a richly furnished
grave a few decades before our lady it's one for the virtual museum as it shows that she
wasn't just popped into a cemetery of ordinary people, and now the rainstorm has brought out
the colours in Trench 2, Francis and Romy think that they can see more possible graves. There's a bit of bone coming through here.
Yeah, just the leg I've got a tiny moment I think I might have a strip of orange that's
not quite orange which that bit of bone lies on top of and what and that's what I think
I have here similar it's very brown rather than this being orange I mean I think we might
have two more graves I think we do have two more graves. Yeah, definitely I think I've got
one here one, two, three, four, five, six graves in total. One is not on the same alignment
but yeah six graves I'd called that cemetery. meeting any grave goods from this Cemetery
probably been spread across the field by the plow which tallys with the location of the
finds that Thomas discovered over the years and then you've got these nail cleaners on
which are classic Romano British gear for keeping clean he also found a lot of Roman
coins and artifacts in the field to the north of the burials which he thought might be the
remains of the villa so we're wondering what connection it might have to our Anglo-Saxon
story oh yes there these are bigger bits there's that's definitely or is that a field drain
is that tagular I think that's in bricks but although there's evidence of a building there
doesn't seem to be enough to suggest it's a villa I'm not convinced I'm really not convinced
anything you know me neither I mean it just isn't enough is there I'm gonna have field
War Roman sites that using masses of stuff you know what it's like yeah you'd be tripping
over it wouldn't you absolutely Romans really did like their stuff yeah and this is all
local as well it's it's very small scale but the one thing we do need to think about is
the huge number of coins that have been found in this field like I think it's about 100
120. they are focused on the Springs over there
I mean it might be worth investigating around the spring there's a bingeer first around
the spring Jam don't know yet I think we really do need a gfx plot to help us just to have
a look so geophys set to work to see if there's any evidence of buildings around the spring
interestingly Stewart's investigations have led him up the stream to exactly the same
field this gap in the hedge saved me a long walk
around it's actually just on the slope above the stream coming from the field with a burial
in it coming through this hedge and try not leave too much of myself behind it and out
we come into the field where I'll be the Roman building material has been found a bit of
a journal on the stream really from shelfanger right up to the north head of the valley the
further north I've come the narrower it gets the more enclosed it gets that's been a bit
of a trip I'm ready for a bit of a sit down and a rest under a tree a bit of thinking
time now a Roman spring and a shrine might explain why this site would have been a suitable
burial ground for Anglo-Saxon aristocracy but do Tom's Roman finds support this Theory
where does it start well it starts with this late Iron Age material here on the cusp of
the Roman period we've got a nowheim derivative brooch or fragment of one and that's one of
those one piece ones with the coils at the top all made in one piece like almost like
a safety pin yeah yeah and even a little Iron Age coin here I think it's a copy and it would
have been the core of that oh yeah it's gold golden gold coin and then moving on into the
first second century we've got lots of objects of personal adornment like bits of broaches
and some of these lovely classic Romano British nail cleaners oh yes yes form part of those
little cosmetic sets with tweezers and those ear scoops and we've got this really exciting
assemblage of late 2nd, early 3rd Century material and it's really exciting because
it gives us some insight into the identities of the people living or coming to the site
at that time there's part of a little um military bout plate here that would have formed part
of a sword bow of a soldier right and then also we've got several bits of harness fittings
we've got a pendant here and some studs and in the mid-roman period it would only really
be soldiers who'd have access to horses they'd be quite an expensive accoutrement so that's
the Roman army but what are they doing here because this is just the middle of nowhere
in the Roman period isn't it but you have to think of the Roman army as being mobilized
throughout the landscape and we've got probably soldiers coming here keeping check on the
local population and moving on to the coins we've got this massive explosion of coins
from the late 3rd Century all the way through to the end of the Roman period Now you kind
of have to expect that on any Romano British site of the late Roman period but what's really
interesting is the number of coins that we've got in this late 3rd Century period 275-285
that's a little bit unusual you usually if you have that number of coins you'd be it
would be an urban profile and we definitely don't have a city out there and can you shed
any light on this street well we do have these two things here okay which are coin blanks
and we know that during this period there is a lot of coin copying going on in Roman
Britain yes to create more create change yes yeah it's possible somebody is minting counterfeit
queenage on the site perhaps for deposition Innovative deposits maybe who knows there's
also possibility that there's a small hoard or purse drop concealed amongst these coins
because we've got quite a lot of coins of the emperor corralsias there are five or six
issues and they're all quite well preserved so they've not been knocking around as much
in the plow soil perhaps so what's what's happening in the 4th Century? Well there's
certainly more coins not quite as many as there are in the late 3rd Century but you
can see they run all the way through to 402 we've also got some fragments of bracelets
and this really nice fingering which is made of tin it looks like it's made of silver but
it's actually tin as we found out from XRF they tend to be dedicated to the gods so that
might give some support to the idea of votive deposition on the side so now you've looked
at all of it Philippa what's your thought about what it all means? So what I've really
noticed is that these are the sorts of things that you do tend to get offered in votive
deposits so these are things with personal meaning to people and they offer them to gods
as part of their personal relationship with the gods and do you think that's that's matched
with the pottery and the building material Rachael? Well, not quite as elaborate the pottery
is much more domestic in nature we've got the coarse gray wares that would be for food
storage food preparation cooking eating a couple of color-coated pieces are probably
drinking vessels or flagons to hold the liquids but my eye is completely caught by these because
that to me looks like it's the keying for plaster that's put on a box flue tile implying
central heating up the walls indeed we even have a corner fragment of one of the box flue
tile blocks again with the keying for the the plaster so we've got a centrally heated
building we have we have a ceramic roof as well tegular and imbrex roof tiles and two sorts
of Roman brick, so we've got a building. A centrally heated building with a tile roof and maybe
a tile floor and in the same field we've got a votive site that's attracting offerings.
Yes, that sounds like it could be the case. Yeah. So, it's an intriguing theory which could help
explain why this site was chosen for our Winfarthing women's final resting place. John
meanwhile has had a revelation about where her grave was. Everybody has said the burial
was south because that was what was on the plot from the original geophysics. But it didn't match the grid reference no and your grid reference that you've given us is
exactly there right north of the ditch so the point is, when the trench was being dug
nobody would know it was south of the ditch because you didn't know where the ditch was
in the field. No, that is entirely a good point. Yeah, we had absolutely no idea no idea what
that was now we've got a GPS point that coincides with the plan we've got to look at it that
does sound very tempting hey then John this is it the fourth time no pressure so mad extends
Trench 3 to test John's Theory but also on the lookout for other burials for a ring ditch
I mean it's definitely that's clean clean isn't it there well there's nothing obvious but how can you lose a burial he did say it wasn't
going to be easy back in the church in Winfarthing Paul Blinkhorn
has been sifting through the fires that have been coming in from the test pits. Hi Paul, how's it going? Oh yeah it's getting
interesting and we're down to about context four now we're starting to get some really
interesting stuff I love you saw these yesterday but a couple of nice bits of late Saxon
pottery the rims from uh Thetford ware adjust uh you'll be unsurprised how it's made in
Thetford uh probably in about the 10th or 11th century I mean quite often in this part
of the world The Villages come to come into being around about the 10th century and so
that's kind of a good marker for you know early by the village it was in the top soil
but nevertheless it's with the film sort of thing so that's good yeah what else have we
got uh we're going to start again for medieval now as well another bit of light suction from
another one of the plates excellent so we've got two different test pits producing late
Saxon fill. Yeah we're getting bits of early medieval now nice let's do a little bit of
the standard early medieval 11th 12th century and my favorite finds so far it's a 13th 14th
century geogram and you can see where the potter's made a lip with his finger or her
finger yeah I love that it's brilliant when you get that with pottery yeah it brings it
to that that was probably made of adding them down here so exit you find it all over East
Anglia from about the late 12th century onwards it's looking very much even in these early
days but we're looking at a late Saxon, post- Viking village. I mean there was a completely
reorganization of the landscape but the Vikings went through and a lot of new settlements
sprung up and to imagine wildflowers Cavalry Thoughts with a village around in a church
that was the kind of thing and it's starting to look like Winfarthing was possibly one
of those but it's very illegal I'm not doing that three shirts of pottery even I won't
do that the hope is that these test pits Mark the
start of a longer term project in Winfarthing and have you taken to it is it something exciting
yes I was saying to Dani when I weed my garden next time it'll just take hours and the sense of community that I get well
it's really cool this is my new best friend this morning but when you put washing together
my dad had to turn the hose on which is yes no it is it's local people when you just strike
out conversations but one time team leave do you think you know archeology in this sense
of community will that be something that'll be left behind yesterday Derek and Lawrence spotted some
masonry in the medieval Church War which they thought could have come from something earlier
[Music] thanks to Adam's photography we've been doing some 3D modeling of it and we've
been trying to pull out some of the details but there are linear there are features on
there there are engravings on it now doesn't it look like parts of a cross does exactly
like that it's nice to hear you guys saying that because this is what we thought we and
Derek, I must say Derek spotted this and he's he's done amazingly well here I doubt I mean
that certainly man-made but very very weathered of course which is what you would expect of
a much older Anglo-Saxon standing cross very characteristic of the seventh and 8th centuries
and which of course over time with weather and the wind and the various vicissities the
Danes were already in the countryside they tend to fall over and so when it comes to
Building a Church medieval Masons would be recycling any rubble stone that comes to hand
especially near if it's nearby but other than that as I say we got a bit distracted by this
so I can't add too much more landscape story but Stuart hopefully you can well I hope so
my win father is is that's what's really been been challenging then um valleys yes penetrating
into the center of the hundred yeah and this one particular one coming around here is where
we've got our lovely you've got this shoulder sticking out it's the perfect place to place
a burial in this special place as you come to this wooded I'll go within the landscape
but if we look up that also might be pointing to I've used the word shrine quite carefully
here but is that the sort of place you might get for a 100 meeting place takes all the
boxes for that uh a holy well perhaps a holy back holy stream and and a natural Amphitheater
structure which would cause lend it to the kind of soundscape you want for an open-air
meeting place oh so it's just possible that the central meeting place could have been
in the field just next door to our Anglo-Saxon Cemetery I wonder if it's worthwhile getting
the metal detector just to flick over this and see what we can see John entrench two
Jackie's hoping that some of the burials that we're uncovering might have grave Goods that
could help us to characterize the cemetery the cut goes up to there but also it comes
right the way down to here I'm going to get out of the way because I've got steel toe
cut boots on so you can do I don't want you picking there is a positive signal but it's it's definitely
an iron signal right it's quite long and thin so I'm thinking you've got something that
sort of yeah because the bit the way you've got that high pitch pink was there that's
that's with I think that might be the femur there so it's almost like this level you know
sort of thigh waist eye level it's small but it could also be being masked by the irons while you're here do you think you can have
a look at this where Romy was so you can kind of stand in there but you can see there's
a bright orange there and a bright orange and a slightly dirtier orange in the middle
and that's that's the grade so okay so stand across there yeah high-pitched oh wow that sounds quite interesting that
sounds to me Romy like you're gonna have a really interesting day tomorrow I can't wait
of interest but that's a particular interest because it's not but you have to do the whole
thing not just that bit I'll bring my best again okay right thanks John brilliant [Music]
these burials have suffered so much plow damage that any grave good surviving where they were
buried would be incredibly valuable to our story by the end of day two we've opened up two
big trenches to look for our wind Farthing woman the absence of any archeology in trench
one and three suggests that our lady was deliberately set apart from the other Graves we're finding
entrenched to [Music] this might be a cemetery and they might be definitely a cemetery absolutely
definitely but it might be quite a dense Cemetery which is really not what I was expecting which
is a which is really nice it's really nice to know that the the wind farming lady was
in the middle of a of a folk Cemetery of of people that were around her and and it's not
just this trench obviously we've got more to do further up the hill but there's hints
of more coming out there too and in the northern field we've got evidence of a structure both
from the fines and beginning to come up I think from the geophysics so so it's it is
all still quite tentative and I'm very aware that we've only got one day left but I don't
think it's all been blitzed into nothingness by the plow so one day left come on let's
go and get in the wall yes please tomorrow we'll expand our investigation into the field
next door to see if there is a Roman shrine here before our lady was interred and our
burial is inspired Sam to perform for us as the sun sets on day two we've been spending a lot of time looking
at the landscape and the Forgotten features of this landscape give us the setting of this
wonderful burial but there's another aspect to it that is often overlooked that is the
Forgotten soundscape what the sounds that were heard an obituary she would have had
that the traditional meaning for most ordinary people and for years after would be the poetry
and so looking at the old language and some of the words they would have used to describe
the lady herself and indeed that beautiful pendant um I saw a listing a few things and
I thought why don't I sort of string them together try and simulate something of the
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