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Making History
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 Tuesday 3.00-3.30 p.m |
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Vanessa Collingridge and the team answer listener’s historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all ‘make’ history. |
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15ÌýApril 2008 |
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Vanessa Collingridge and the team discuss listeners' historical queries and celebrate the many ways in which we all 'make' history.
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Dartmoor Stone Rows
The Neolithic Stone Rows of Dartmoor have long puzzled antiquarians and archaeologists. What was their intended purpose? Making History listener Roger Hutchins has worked on Dartmoor for 30 years and he has come to the conclusion that they were a grand navigation system which helped early traders navigate on and off Dartmoor.
Making History reporter Richard Daniel put Roger's theory to local archaeologist Dr Tom Greeves. Dr Greeves didn’t discount it but made it clear that there is little evidence for any theory about their purpose. However, Dr Greeves has recently made his own discovery, a new stone row higher than any of the others at a place called Cut Hill. Radio carbon dating at the University of Plymouth reveals that this row may well be 1,000 years older than those of the second millennium BC that are found elsewhere.
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Mediaeval Sheep Dairying in Suffolk
Suffolk is well known for its wool churches built on the wealth of manufacturing industry in the 15th century. However, sheep were important in the harsh economic times of the 13th and early 14th century – particularly on the poor, sandy soils of the Suffolk coast. Here, poorer people would rely on sheep for milk and maybe cheese. With the Black Death of 1349, the population of England was halved.
Those that survived found it easier to find work and this was well paid because labour was short. No longer did people have to rely on sheep for milk, this was the beginnings of Suffolk’s famous (cattle) dairy industry which exported milk and cheese (Suffolk bang was used by the navy until the rise of Cheshire cheese two or three hundred years later) to London and the Continent.
Further reading:
Mediaeval Suffolk – An Economic and Social History, 1200 – 1500, by Dr Mark Bailley. Published by The Boydell Press ISBN 978 184383 315 4 |
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Contact ÌýMaking History |
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Use this link to email Vanessa Collingridge and the team: email Making History
Write to: Making History
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4
PO Box 3096
Brighton
BN1 1TU
Telephone: 08700 100 400
Making History is produced by Nick Patrick and is a Pier Production. |
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý