Episode 2: At Home in Early Medieval England

Archaeologist Dr Toby Martin talks about homes in the early medieval period: what homes may have been like in the 5th-7th centuries, who would have lived there, and how they may have spent their time.

Learn more about early medieval life

To accompany Episode 2 of the Curious Minds Podcast, Dr Martin has hand-picked several learning resources to help you learn more about early medieval life.

Discover the history culture of the Anglo-Saxons with the British Library. Find out more about who they were, where they came from, their culture and their influence on modern-day Britain through articles, featured collection items and blog posts. 

Learn about and visit the Anglo-Saxon village of West Stow - the site of an early Anglo-Saxon village, occupied from AD 420-650, over 400 years before the Norman Conquest.

Read the excavation report from West Stow by Stanley West via the East Anglian Archaeology Reports website.

We'd like to thank the following artists for providing music:

“Come Inside” by Snowflake (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/59564 Ft: Starfrosch, Jerry Spoon, Kara Square, spinningmerkaba

"Evening Fall (Harp)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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