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The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. In this special episode, join our very own Dan Snow and Gone Medieval host Matt Lewis as they chat to the team behind the dig about some of their revelatory finds, and begin to see the people behind them, and the way they may have lived their lives.Ī special thanks to HS2, INFRA and Fusion for giving History Hit special access behind the scenes! If there was a real, historical King Arthur, this is the part of history he's hiding within. It offers the chance to see more clearly a part of British history that has been hidden from us until now. The find, made at an undisclosed location near Wendover in the Chilterns, consists of a 5th-6th century burial site that has been described as one of the most important post-Roman, early medieval discoveries of our lifetime. An extraordinary discovery has been unearthed by archaeologists working alongside the HS2 rail project.

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