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Tom Holland is joined by who is responsible for is for the British and continental European Iron Age collections at the British Museum and , Lecturer in Material Culture at the University of Newcastle and author of Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire.

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As so-called Islamic State are dislodged by Iraqi forces from their occupation of the ancient city of Mosul, 听 joins Tom to discuss the damage done to the archaeology there.

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A cache of letters written by Roman troops serving at the fort of 听 on Hadrian鈥檚 Wall have been uncovered by archaeologists. Tom spoke with the Director of the trust that runs the site, Andrew Birley. A similar find was made 25 years ago in 1992 and can be explored at

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2017 is the 1900th anniversary of the accession of Emperor Hadrian the man behind the wall which stretches from Newcastle to the Solway Firth. Tom visited the wall to discuss its place in our cultural history. He was joined by the author of Hadrian鈥檚 Wall: A Life, ; the Poet 听and the Lecturer in Regional History at the University of Lancashire,

Katrina Porteus reads extracts from her poem `This Far and No Further' which draws upon the voices and sounds of those living in the wall's shadow. More information available from

Geologists have discovered that the Romans were able to manufacture a concrete which, in marine conditions, would continue to strengthen and become more resilient with age. Helen Castor spoke to one of the people who have been working on this find

The original research was published in and it has been reported in a number of publications, including and

Could a really be a Saxon burial site? 听who leads the 听at the University of Reading thinks there鈥檚 every chance it might be. He and his fellow researchers have found that by taking a sample core through the middle of similar mounds what were once thought of as Norman mottes can be hundreds of years earlier in origin.

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