Matt Lewis

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1,437 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 2d ago

Matt Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

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Everybody carries a knife matched

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Not everyone has a sword. matched

A sword is a weapon of status. matched

They cost an awful lot of money. matched

So if we look at a lot of Anglo-Saxon hordes, Staffordshire Horde, for example, has a whole load of sword hilts in it matched

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collected by somebody else because they're valuable and important and the suggestion is that the swords that they've come off are being stripped of what makes them valuable and makes them stand out and perhaps recycled amongst the men so the leader of an army is issuing swords to his men because not everybody can afford to have a valuable sword lying around all of the time you know the idea that medieval households have them above the fire matched

attacked you can just go and get the sword matched

the case not not a thing yeah matched

If a warlord wants to go to war, part of his demonstration of his status is how many people can I give a sword to? matched

The Staffordshire Horde has something like 120-something sword hilts in it. matched

So this is plunder that someone has taken from all over the place. matched

And for context, Sutton Hoo has one sword hilt in it. matched

So this is someone who is probably a fairly successful... matched

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They are to some extent. matched

Bows and arrows are used for hunting and matched

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