Dan Snow
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15,398 appearances
106 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A town.
It's got a bridge over the River Derwent.
It's got street names that all relate to the battle, and the town is alive with images of the famous clash.
You stop anyone on the street there, they'll tell you about the battle.
But no artifacts or remains have ever been
Discovered their biochaeologists.
But recently fines have been coming out of the ground.
Around a mile to the south of Stamford Bridge, at a place called Low Catton.
And by fines, I mean a lot of fines.
Team History Hit and I have been up a couple of times, and I was there when Simon Richardson, the metal detectrist, unearthed a Viking belt buckle, the clasp shaped to look like the head of a mythical beast.
You can make out the eyes and ears and the snout.
It's from the eleventh century.
It is definitely Scandinavian.
So exciting.
You're standing there in a field rubbing the mud off this thing that hasn't seen the light of day for nearly a thousand years.
Minutes later, in that same field, he found a Viking pommel.
That's the weighted end of a sword which protects the hand, it stops it slipping off the grip, and it acts as a bit of a counterweight.
Simon was shaking with excitement as he showed that one to me.
Next we were finding
pieces of male shirt coming out of the ground.
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