Old Bones Podcast
1) Wayland's Smithy - Liminal Smiths in Anglo-Saxon England
In this episode, we discuss the evidence for Anglo-Saxon smiths, the people who created the artefacts at Sutton Hoo and other princely burials. To do this we analyse the Neolithic tomb called Wayland'...Show More
2) Sutton Hoo - Mercury Rivers
Sutton Hoo is the most spectacular archaeology discovery in British history. We explore what this tells us about the Anglo-Saxons' relationship to themselves, their neighbours and their past. Help kee...Show More
3) Yeavering Pt. 2 - Of Gods and Priests, Kings, Queens and Bede
What was it like to be pagan and Christain the next? In this episode, we visit the site of Yeavering and its many strange burials to try and understand what the conversion of England must have felt li...Show More
4) Yeavering Pt 1: The Rise of the Anglo-Saxon Kings
How do we go from the society we met last time, one that is primarily equal and poor to the medieval image of kings, men with wealth and power near unimaginable to the ordinary peasant.In this episode...Show More
5) Growing Up in Early Anglo-Saxon England
What was life like in the 400s and 500s CE? That question is not an easy one. In this episode, we look at the funerary evidence for each stage of life during this period. We understand what identity w...Show More
6) Spong Hill: The Anglo-Saxons Arrive
All across the East of England, there are small cemeteries with completely new material culture. it looks like it's from North-West Europe and represents the arrival, so well documented, of the Anglo-...Show More
7) Chapels in the Sands - Celtic Christianity in the Irish Sea
All around the Irish sea, small stone chapels still remain. Some are amongst the sand dunes, some are now part of larger monasteries and some of them are on golf courses. All of them share an origin s...Show More
8) King Arthur: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
A king who lies beneath a mountain waiting to return when his land needs him most... which apparently wasn't World War 2, the Great Recession or Coronavirus - how much worse could things become? Anywa...Show More
9) Tintagel: Merchants Come to the Cornish Kings
Join me on the waves around Tintagel as we discuss the kingdom that arose in Cornwall in the 5th century and, rather than becoming German or British decided to adopt a distinctly continental identity....Show More
10) The 2020 Christmas Special
In this one-off Christmas special, a fellow archaeology student - Grace - and I chat about a few things from the history of Christmas, including the medieval and pagan origins, as well as how it would...Show More