Ashes in the Moat

Episode 51THE LAND ROVERS PODCASTAshes in the Moat

We're back around Kenton Hall this week, a glorious Tudor fronted manor house with more than a few secrets scattered around the tumbling landscape that surrounds it.

Not too long ago extensive field walking turned up hundreds of sherds of Roman pottery in and around the moat itself, and what was clear from wider archaeology was that the hall was the very heart of a wider Roman rural landscape. It stayed the heart of this community for centuries, with layer upon layer of history cradled by the silty water and surrounding clay.

Then, in 1919, disaster struck: the hall burned to the ground, leaving just the grand Tudor facade that greets us today, and another layer of history was engulfed by the moat. But this year, following the extraordinary summer we've had, the water is so low there's a once in a generation chance to walk the banks and unearth some of those secrets.

And we simply couldn't say no!

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