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Ep 332 - The Marlow Warlord: Anglo-Saxon Graves & Gold w/ Brett Thorn
Daniel Farrand sits down with Brett Thorn, Keeper of Archaeology at Discover Bucks Museum, to explore their landmark exhibition, The Saxons.
The discussion centers on two extraordinary early medieval burials: the 6th-century "Marlow Warlord"—a solitary, 6ft 4in warrior buried overlooking the Thames with an intact pattern-welded sword, broken spears, and continental bronze feasting cauldrons—and the 7th-century Taplow Princely Burial, Britain’s richest pagan grave before the discovery of Sutton Hoo.
Thorn explains how sentinel burials marked volatile river borders, how micro-foil waffle…
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