Great Baddow Hoard: What do you treasure?

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00:00:51: Oh Rachel I am just so

00:00:52: excited

00:00:53: this week!

00:00:55: We have got a grand opening for very

00:00:57: special

00:00:58: exhibition And it's also my birthday.

00:01:01: That is exciting.

00:01:02: Do any plans celebrate?

00:01:04: Well yes actually i'm going to have fun day out with family at Oakland Park.

00:01:10: You're coming on your birthday

00:01:12: Yes!

00:01:13: Oh I always put my birthday off, i can't bit

00:01:16: it.

00:01:18: I could understand

00:01:19: that on a normal day but this is not a normal Day and does really work if you love It?

00:01:25: Anyway This

00:01:25: Is Going To Be Like My Own Party With Iron Age Reenactors Taking Over The Park And I Was Thinking About What You Said Last Time about Fred Wells Making Enough Money Selling Beer That He Could Build Oakland's house.

00:01:41: Arby was he totaling self?

00:01:43: True,

00:01:44: I did a bit of research into this actually for the podcast you understand and Sam called beer as their latest local brewery The Champsford Brew Company And they even have a beer called Radio Wave.

00:01:58: Oh well i take after Frederick don't re-drink yourself!

00:02:06: But their

00:02:06: brewery is actually based in Great Baddow.

00:02:08: and do you know what else?

00:02:11: The field where the Iron Age coins were found.

00:02:14: I

00:02:19: can't tell how excited i am about these coins!

00:02:28: only they could speak.

00:02:30: Well, I can't tell you where that came from but i do know someone who can!

00:02:33: Claire will be joining us in the Curator's Call this week to test more about their significant find.

00:02:39: We're also going to hear all of our another chance for June and one of our wonderful volunteers is gonna tell what they've overheard at the museum lately

00:02:49: And enjoy!

00:02:52: So well...I mean..I'm happy just go.

00:02:54: did you literally record it with Sarah?

00:02:56: Okay well let's just go.

00:02:58: So what did you say I've got to say at the beginning?

00:03:01: Well hi, i'm Claire and welcome to Curator's Corner today.

00:03:05: i'm going to tell you about The Great Baddow Coin Horde.

00:03:08: so The Great baddow coin horde is the largest recorded hoard of gold iron age coins ever found in Britain.

00:03:15: it's so incredibly exciting.

00:03:16: that was found in Champsford And It Was Found By A Metal Detectorist In Twenty-Twenty More Than Two Thousand Years After It Was Buried.

00:03:25: So settle down, maybe grab a drink.

00:03:27: I've got my bottle of water here so get comfortable to hear more about the great Baddow coin hoard!

00:03:33: Well it's so amazing to have such an incredible find and discovery on our doorstep.

00:03:37: we've been so fortunate that being able to acquire for The Museum of Chelmsford Collection after lots of work fundraising grants from museum friends in local archaeology groups It was great.

00:03:49: received phone call today are grant with National Heritage Lottery Fund had be successful.

00:03:54: It was actually like winning the lottery itself.

00:03:56: Like when you get that lovely phone

00:03:57: call and have been offered

00:03:58: a job, then can't wipe their smile or grin off your face for couple of hours.

00:04:02: it's just brilliant!

00:04:03: So what so significant about these coins?

00:04:05: Well we've been banging on to fact they are the largest gold Iron Age coin hoard but... What else is interesting about them?

00:04:13: There are nine hundred thirty three Gold Coins in total and nine hundred and thirty of those are same type.

00:04:19: Now I'm going to really struggle, every time i try and say this on a recording of anything.

00:04:24: I get completely tongue-tied so I apologize straight away if I say it in a really strange way.

00:04:30: So they've all been identified as an uninscribed Eastern British Iron Age gold stator Of the Wadden Chase type.

00:04:39: Did you have to really clearly enunciate?

00:04:44: but they're a variation of more commonly found gold staters called Wadden Chase Types, and are named as such because this type was first found in Waddon Chase an ancient hunting forest in Buckinghamshire in the eighteen hundreds.

00:04:59: They're actually really quite small, they are about the size of a modern five-p but their weightier so almost double the weight over five p. So when you hold them in your hand there's actually feel quite solid In comparison to that size which surprised me because I didn't think it was going to be quite so weighty and solid.

00:05:15: What is it about stator?

00:05:16: what is a stator coin?

00:05:17: well a Stata was the main gold denomination used in Iron Age Britain And When You Look at The Coin on the obverse side its an abstract wreath whereas the reverse features a horse that's running to the right.

00:05:30: Staters were originally Greek denominations and indeed, the design of iron age coins like these are thought to have been influenced by a particular Greek stator, Philip II of Macedon The father Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC.

00:05:44: And when you compare and look at greek gold stators and early Iron Age coins through those which we find on our horde You can see how the design of the obverse side changes from the head of a Greek deity wearing a laurel wreath to different designs featuring the Laurel Wreath and our wooden chaste status which have a Laurel wreathe as a lion running across the middle of the coin.

00:06:04: But on the reverse, The chariot that's often found in greek coins has been altered just like a horse Again common designed used for iron age coins And their designs are more abstract & stylised.

00:06:15: but again you can see clear link between the greek status and those made by Iron Age people.

00:06:20: It's really fascinating

00:06:21: to see how our coins have been influenced by Greek coins as trade and people have travelled across southern to northern Europe.

00:06:29: But when you look at the hoarders a whole, I've counted these coins now several times... ...as have my colleagues!

00:06:36: We've all counted them several times.

00:06:38: Counted checked verified every time we've shown somebody or group of people.

00:06:43: but you can really see they're individual very slightly different.

00:06:47: And whilst they all have the same design, They obviously have a slight variation in size shape and look because there are

00:06:53: after-all

00:06:54: hand made.

00:06:55: So you think to yourself.

00:06:56: well how were they made?

00:06:57: There weren't actually made like modern coins today!

00:07:00: They would've been made by striking a blank flank of gold essentially a blank piece of metal between two engraved dies.

00:07:08: I'm making these coins.

00:07:09: that'd be extremely skilled.

00:07:10: We've actually had a die engraved with our coin design for people to have go out and see if they can make their own coin.

00:07:18: And it's really hard create the same coin every time, hitting exactly precisely at the same point.

00:07:24: I don't think is just my incompetence.

00:07:25: i think that rest of team also found quite hard do so.

00:07:29: when you see all the horde together this makes them even more remarkable.

00:07:33: as thought only one or two dies were used to create coins we found.

00:07:37: So it's even more amazing that our coins look so similar.

00:07:40: The engraving on the die of the Iron Age coin was larger than a circular piece of metal placed on the dye, you had to really hit in exact same space and as I've just said That is hard too do get the same design.

00:07:52: whoever made these coins were just really skilled And i think thats really fascinating when your thinking its over two thousand years ago and the associations we have with at time.

00:08:02: The quality of the engraving on the dies is just so clever.

00:08:05: So not only are they skilling actually making a coin, but also in making an actual die because when you look at tiny details and size of design They're just few millimetres in diameter.

00:08:15: so whoever made that die as well was incredibly skilled.

00:08:19: Was it same person who struck those coins?

00:08:21: Who knows!

00:08:22: But two things were incredibly skilled.

00:08:25: So not only do these coins fascinate me and so interesting from a point of view how they were made, who they

00:08:30: are made by

00:08:31: the techniques that we use but there's so much to unpick about discovery in terms why they were buried in Essex.

00:08:37: Who buried them?

00:08:39: Why did it end up just on the outskirts of Chelmsford?

00:08:43: Of course you will never really know if we can piece together different facts or other events thought have happened at same time.

00:08:48: We could get an idea perhaps with some theories.

00:08:53: So the coins have been dated to sixty-to-twenty BC and what's really interesting about discovery is that we wouldn't expect find this particular type of stator as far east, normally like other Waddenchase hordes they were named from in Buckinghamshire in the eighteen hundreds.

00:09:10: They found a lot further west.

00:09:12: so does it mean people moved at time?

00:09:14: The two tribes at the time Trinivantes and Caterfellori moved farther West?

00:09:19: or were perhaps these coins passed between the two tribes?

00:09:23: These coins, traditionally we would have expected to be used more by the Cato Volorni tribe.

00:09:28: So who did these coins belong

00:09:30: too?".

00:09:30: Again it challenges our perception and understanding of movement of tribes within this area at that time.

00:09:37: so thats really interesting!

00:09:39: But also... At the same sort of time that these coins are dated from Julius Caesar was launching his second invasion of Britain in fifty four BC.

00:09:49: So were these coins connected to that?

00:09:52: When Julius Caesar invaded Britain in fifty-four BC, Cassavillanius the leader of the Catavillani led a coalition of tribes to fight against the Romans.

00:10:01: Other tribes that formed for coalitional resistance with Cassavallanus surrendered to Caesar revealing the location of Catavallani's stronghold.

00:10:10: after a last ditch attempt with a diversionary attack in Kent The Catavullani would defeated and surrender to Caesar.

00:10:17: So could our horde perhaps have been connected to this invasion and gathered be given as a tribute to Caesar?

00:10:23: Or, perhaps who buried them was unable come back and find where they involved in that invasion.

00:10:29: Were they lost – could not remember where they'd buried them!

00:10:32: Where are they unable go back the

00:10:33: spot?!

00:10:33: There were so many unanswered questions but it's really fascinating considering all possible theories.

00:10:39: So the next thing you might be thinking is, well it's all very well talking about these things but when can I see them at The Museum?

00:10:45: Are they on display At The Museum?

00:10:46: really exciting.

00:10:47: They've gone on display today which Is super-exciting.

00:10:53: You Can Come and See Them Along With Other Treasures In The museum Collection Where We've Explored And Looked At What Treasure Means To Us And other Collectors Associated with The Museum.

00:11:05: But for me, I think it's really nice to think that because they were buried the person who buried them in the ground probably treasured our coin hoard.

00:11:11: And i'd love to go back in time and ask them wouldn't be great to really find out?

00:11:15: Next up is Rachel Storytime!

00:11:19: Okay hello everyone.

00:11:20: I have a true crime story for you this week In our very own Oaklands house.

00:11:24: oh yes we do have a good uh True Crime.

00:11:26: another mystery.

00:11:28: Oh Yes We Do.

00:11:29: So let us go Back in Time To Oaklands Nineteen Eleven.

00:11:34: But first of all, let me give you the lowdown on a new family in town.

00:11:37: So they are The Willig Family Daniel and his wife Alma.

00:11:41: They were married in eighteen seventy-seven And moved here In nineteen ten.

00:11:44: She had seven children total Seven

00:11:47: With

00:11:47: two sets of twin girls.

00:11:49: Oh I come from A family with Two sets of Twin Girls.

00:11:52: Oh look at that!

00:11:54: It's quite unusual.

00:11:56: So i've even Exalted thinking about That.

00:11:57: Two set to twins either.

00:12:01: So Daniel's occupation, his census records show that he has income from land.

00:12:06: In other words... He probably led the life of Riley while these servants recalled how all I knew is you went to London for work or do what he got to.

00:12:14: So I could probably see him... A

00:12:15: bit of China and friends!

00:12:17: I think so,

00:12:17: they won't really know.

00:12:18: is what

00:12:19: it's doing?

00:12:19: Exactly yes like maybe a city broker or business put in London.

00:12:23: you've always spent the day at gentlemen's clubs.

00:12:26: And also the servant also recalled how that held massive parties for his london friends and clients.

00:12:31: They used come down stay.

00:12:32: so probably i'm thinking more business.

00:12:35: But this has been part my life in Maryland America America a few times on the white star's minion line.

00:12:43: It was, it wasn't White Star the one who built Titanic?

00:12:45: It

00:12:45: was Titanic which is a bit beforehand.

00:12:47: this would be in nineteen oh six and nine to no eight.

00:12:49: so he wouldn't have been nice and safe if you don't go to him from America.

00:12:52: So

00:12:53: now back on subject.

00:12:54: I always get back to Titanic in some way.

00:12:57: So back to our story... So The Peaceful and Tranquil Surrounders of the House were shattered at the morning of the Saturday the twenty-fifth March, Nineteen Eleven.

00:13:05: So this is from the account's Harriet Cole, who we're going to talk about in our next podcast.

00:13:09: This was her eyewitness accounts of The Burglary which makes it even more interesting.

00:13:14: so

00:13:14: she was one of the servants here at that time.

00:13:16: She was a one that virtually founds the room.

00:13:18: how it was as well.

00:13:20: It also mentioned Essex Chronicle Which actually pointed towards One Of The Oldest Newspapers In The Whole Country At That Time As Well Absolutely So.

00:13:30: while opening up, she ran into the Parliament and Victorian Hall who had opened-up The Dining Room looking panicked.

00:13:35: She said there were burglars in their.

00:13:37: Harriet screamed And the Parliament said shut up!

00:13:40: Shut Up!

00:13:41: Harriet says well I couldn't help it.

00:13:43: Well bless her...she's only seventeen Harriet.

00:13:45: at the time She must have been absolutely frightened Absolutely With all this commotion.

00:13:50: Daniel Selkirk held a house marched down the stairs and asked what on earth is happening?

00:13:55: The Parliament said sir they've been burglards of the dining room.

00:13:58: And then she got hold of Harriet and shook her.

00:14:02: She looked like she was about to scream again, so you can imagine it's a bit like a comedy sketch.

00:14:05: Like get to goodness sake woman!

00:14:07: Shut up!

00:14:08: Get a grip!

00:14:11: They all made their way into the dining room.

00:14:13: they noticed how cold the room was but window left open.

00:14:16: what greed is doing?

00:14:16: What a scene of absolute carnage.

00:14:19: So the Essex Weekly News, later The Essex Chronicle reported the theft with a headline raid by burglars at Chelsea Museum.

00:14:26: This is all caps lock on as well.

00:14:27: so very serious!

00:14:29: So the visitors ransacked the room in which several valuable cups and large quantity of silver spoons knives and forks.

00:14:36: Harriet added how they also took jewellery and a pretty silver pill box as well.

00:14:41: And in effect sure a table was made to break into.

00:14:42: Mr willing study and it's my favourite bit of the story.

00:14:46: So, I believe would be The Burglars had time to help themselves.

00:14:49: so Harvard did cancer with Sherry some biscuits a banana And other eatables as well.

00:14:55: Oh brilliant!

00:14:56: It was a hungry job.

00:14:57: Yeah definitely, thank

00:14:59: you You're in a job.

00:14:59: They left footprints and fingerprints all over their crime

00:15:03: scene.

00:15:04: When police arrived they found a ladder outside that ran parallel to Longstomps Avenue.

00:15:09: In the aftermath everyone at home gave them fingerprints and alibis.

00:15:13: A couple of hours later, the parlor maid went for a stroll in the gardens and she found note on her path by back door.

00:15:21: So it said... So their whole plan for the rubber age and they just left it on the ground.

00:15:35: Oh my gosh!

00:15:37: It

00:15:38: sounds like home alone, yeah I've

00:15:44: literally bit banned it.

00:15:50: so as you can see a lot very professional Granted, they managed to get into the house and not disturb a dog.

00:15:57: So we know from the servants' eye-witness accounts that there was always a dog in the first room.

00:16:02: you'd come into at the museum which is now The Hive Cafe Kitchen.

00:16:06: so somehow it didn't disturb any of them.

00:16:08: It's supposed be quite a yappy dog as well!

00:16:09: That must have been an absolute miracle.

00:16:12: It gets better...so the police recovered some items on their garden when they fled.

00:16:17: They must've dropped them while fleeing but left behind a silk handkerchief.

00:16:22: It feels a bit like a parody, doesn't it really?

00:16:24: Yeah.

00:16:24: I could just imagine with their swag bag and bits of cutlery falling out

00:16:28: as they were under my other face!

00:16:30: Absolutely.

00:16:32: It's about that you've got to get into.

00:16:32: the car is empty bag...it's all dispersed around

00:16:36: the grounds.

00:16:37: You can just imagine But..they would never found.

00:16:40: Oh so they weren't THAT bad.

00:16:41: They must have gotten away with something And the assurance did cover majority of the losses.

00:16:46: but at least we had to think What an inside job.

00:16:49: So how wouldn't they know?

00:16:50: Oh, because it was well-known in the area.

00:16:52: Because of The Wells Family previously.

00:16:54: but how did they know that Zinni Rihl is at the back and about the dog?

00:16:59: It's all sort things like this weird cryptic

00:17:01: bit isn't there

00:17:04: for her sake?

00:17:05: Is a woman who thought up beside him as well.

00:17:08: so lots of questions I've got to say But i think we can close our case now with DCI Webber and DCI Brown.

00:17:18: I think we've done our time now.

00:17:19: Yeah,

00:17:20: yeah definitely a cold case i think.

00:17:21: marriage

00:17:24: and that's the story of our Chelmsford Cold Case here at Oaklands.

00:17:28: next up is the Chelmsfaudian Of The Week.

00:17:30: my question to you if your Cheltsfaudia had to bury a precious horde of treasure what do you think their treasure would be?

00:17:41: Welcome to ChelmsFaudienOfTheWeek.

00:17:43: this week You've got me Maxine Community Engagement Officer Here At The Museum producer, the very first podcast.

00:17:56: My challenge for the end of this week links to this episode through The Process Of Creation – The Baddow Horde creating beautiful treasures and This Person creating beautiful artworks.

00:18:08: An Iron Age person striking a coin an Alfred Bennett Bamford swishing paintbrush.

00:18:13: both lead.

00:18:17: So I've done a bit of research on Alfred, so you will hear me rustle my papers as i go through.

00:18:23: But Alfred is an honorary Chelmsfordian because he was born in Romford and now starting strong with that Chelmsvid link.

00:18:30: He studied at the Heatherley School Of Art As well as Camden school of art in eighteen eighty three.

00:18:34: That's where we're going back to.

00:18:36: He was second master, which is like a deputy head at the Chelmsford School of Art and Design.

00:18:42: Which at that time would have been on Market Road if you're familiar with Chelmsfield And then became artmaster Head of the Chelmford School for Girls in the year it opened.

00:18:50: So we are going back to nineteen-oh seven... ...which now is the Cheltsford County High School For Girls.

00:18:55: We might have some listeners who attended there themselves.

00:18:59: Alfred was watercolour artist.

00:19:00: His work focussed mostly on buildings in the Essex area Creating a snapshot life.

00:19:06: When I looked up his work, I found that a few of the earlier pieces were actually in pen as well.

00:19:11: Again if you're familiar with Chalmersford he lived on Tyndall Street then moved to Molsham St at the same road the museum is on which you'll definitely know because your going visit.

00:19:20: however Alford was also on the opposite end of Molshum to us where Quadrant used.

00:19:24: He painted Molsham Street a few times and I've picked this road because i walk up and down it twice a day, five days a week.

00:19:33: so I'm quite familiar with it.

00:19:34: And Molshum Street are some of Chelmsford's oldest timber-framed houses... ...and has been recorded by many artists & photographers over the years!

00:19:43: It has real different identity to the rest of Chelmford.. ..and uh....I have picked a painting of his of Molshham street described to you.

00:19:50: In this one we're looking at the area in Molshom Street which has The Bay Horse Pub central to the image, so I will go on and describe it.

00:19:58: But then went a bit of tangent!

00:20:02: So once i saw The Bay Horse look up how long has been there?

00:20:07: And would you believe that there's been a pub back in that site until seventeen seventy?

00:20:11: I couldn't either... Well as we continue talking.... I went down the pub route quite strong, Chelmswood is known for its nightlife.

00:20:20: maybe this helps.

00:20:21: Back to painting.

00:20:22: Imagine you're holding a piece of A-IV paper.

00:20:25: I'd describe this painting as quite warm, lots of earthy tones and almost purples!

00:20:31: The view is looking down Mulsion Street which has slight curve to the right so it disappears off page.

00:20:36: Buildings line each side with exposed wooden beams.

00:20:40: there's a cart rattling down middle.

00:20:42: The cart would now be going down the wrong way on one road.

00:20:46: There are two women in that painting identified by their skirts large hats.

00:20:51: The opposite side of the road has a sign for Windmill Inn, so this is where I went off on that pub tangent again.

00:20:57: Slightly younger than the Bay Horse, the windmill has records going back to seventeen ninety-six.

00:21:03: Another painting have pulled up.

00:21:05: it says Watercolour Of The Mildmay Arms Houses.

00:21:08: These are six terraced houses rebuilt by William MildMay in seventeen fifty eight.

00:21:13: An arms house is unit residential accommodation which belongs to charity and provide housing.

00:21:20: There are arms houses all over the UK.

00:21:22: The ones I'm talking about or a short walk down Molsham Street.

00:21:25: And if you're walking down today from the museum You'd pass that college, a few dental practices lots of homes and you be walking down A very busy road!

00:21:35: The watercolour From nineteen oh six approaches the arms houses on the other end Of Molshum street.

00:21:41: It looks like a bright spring day and the red brick of the Arms Houses really stands out.

00:21:46: The street is lined with large, soft trees.

00:21:50: What catches my eye?

00:21:51: Is the houses are built on what looks like a small hill and if you go down there today it seems so much steeper!

00:21:58: It's almost as though they've dug the road lower.

00:22:00: perhaps its the artist's eye again.

00:22:03: another cart tumbles along an empty road.

00:22:06: He did eventually leave Chelmsford in nineteen thirty, however before moving away he donated a lot of his paintings and fifty-seven were gifted to the museum.

00:22:15: And remain in our collection can be viewed on online collections on their website.

00:22:20: They are stored safely away from stores.

00:22:23: The civic society have blue plaque for him located at the old quadrant building.

00:22:28: so that's two hundred twenty four mulchum street.

00:22:30: if you wanted look it up.

00:22:32: So thinking back to Rachel question Where do I think Alfred would bury a precious hoard, and what his buried treasure be?

00:22:40: Well…I

00:22:41: think to an artist this treasure is his tools – either physical like paintbrush or something intangible.

00:22:48: Let's go with paint brush!

00:22:50: Now where he burry it?

00:22:53: Born in Romford lived in Chelmsford then moved to Cheshire.

00:22:57: I feel that his formative years were spent here but WHERE would he bury?

00:23:02: Perhaps near where his blue plaque stands today, near his home on Mulsion Street and that's my Chelmsfordian of the week.

00:23:10: Next up it is overheard at The Museum.

00:23:19: We're back!

00:23:19: I feel like we need a jingle!

00:23:22: Hello welcome back.

00:23:24: i'm Eleanor also volunteer here but I am with Nick.

00:23:27: Hi Eleanor how are you?

00:23:29: Very good thank-you.

00:23:30: very well and its good to be back talking about something that's very important to the museum.

00:23:35: I'm going to talk about The Battle Hall today, uh i first heard of it a couple years ago in an newspaper article but the fact is coming into the museum seems for me absolutely wonderful.

00:23:47: its gonna be huge attraction and think people will see the hall or look at them make their own judgements also start making replicas which are on display is wonderful, I think that's really interacting with our audience in the way that i'd hope we would.

00:24:06: So something that has occurred to me Eleanor is if we were in the museum and The Baddow Horde was here and you and I were looking at it, transfixed as I'm sure should be what might a casual visitor over here say?

00:24:24: maybe I'd just look at you and go, wow.

00:24:25: I

00:24:27: think i would be questioning which is what I always do...I'm afraid..i am a great questioner!

00:24:31: And I will asking YOU probably because your knowledge would be greater than mine about that Horde how did they get there?

00:24:39: Why were They There?

00:24:40: How Did That Horde Come To Be A Horde?

00:24:43: ..and why was it abandoned as presumably It Was?

00:24:45: so I Think that personalised aspect of the history Is What Would Really Fascinate Me.

00:24:51: So Nick What is your greatest treasure, what would you include in your hoard?

00:24:56: That's

00:24:56: a wonderful question.

00:24:58: This probably isn't the right thing to say as a volunteer at the museum but I'm not a collector or person who really puts a great deal of value on objects per se.

00:25:08: What about you – what are your favourite hoard and collection?

00:25:15: and I've often thought, what would i be buried with?

00:25:18: What would my miniature hoard look like?

00:25:21: Really interesting.

00:25:21: What voters will have or put in there... And this is bad but I'd want to put something into it that can confuse future

00:25:29: archaeologists.

00:25:30: just for fun!

00:25:31: I got these beautiful tiny amphoras at home from Sicily.

00:25:35: obviously they're not ancient But even a tattoo of one of them on the leg.

00:25:43: Well, modern for us now.

00:25:44: But my body there with kind of Roman looking things that are intact and actually are from my era but I think would be what was in my hoard just...things to confuse people just to be annoying!

00:25:56: I

00:25:56: think it's great.

00:25:57: i could imagine archaeologists then curators trying make something like this.

00:26:02: They

00:26:02: have found peoples tattoos preserved as well so had an element.

00:26:09: Yeah, I think i'd be cheeky.

00:26:10: That's wonderful!

00:26:11: It was a great idea and who is to say that the Romans weren't trying to fool us?

00:26:20: Rachel...I

00:26:21: can't believe that dog didn't alert his family about the burglary.

00:26:25: My cat is something of a ninja And I'm sure we'll try take out any intruders.

00:26:32: Actually, he tries to take out anyone in the

00:26:34: house.

00:26:35: He has

00:26:35: this habit of hiding behind all the coats and school blazers that are chucked on the banister at the bottom of the stairs And then jumping out with you as she walked past.

00:26:44: Oh my goodness!

00:26:45: Well... My cat would be absolutely opposite.

00:26:47: I've got the same.

00:26:48: My ginger cat Garfee.

00:26:49: If someone came into the house who's probably convinced him to give them scratches He'd roll his belly.

00:26:55: The worst they'll do is stuggle up and make biscuits on them.

00:26:59: It would be absolutely useless, I love him dearly but...

00:27:02: Get into your house with the offer of lasagna for you.

00:27:05: Absolutely!

00:27:05: You've

00:27:06: got two though haven't ya?

00:27:07: Are they quite similar?

00:27:09: Yeah one very friendly, Garth is a lot more proper.

00:27:12: ginger loves everyone.

00:27:14: everybody loves him.

00:27:15: Penny's bit more reserved.

00:27:16: which real lady i like her?

00:27:18: that's lovely.

00:27:20: I have a mad cat lady if people don't know me.

00:27:24: Well, I love this week's episode.

00:27:27: We've actually covered about two thousand years of history in about thirty minutes which is quite an achievement.

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00:27:35: what.

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00:27:41: it really does help get the word out there about come and visit come a visit museum absolutely particularly to see

00:27:49: that Iron Age coin

00:27:51: hoard.

00:27:51: I'm not gonna stop going on about it Rachel.

00:27:54: It is amazing!

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00:28:00: year.

00:28:01: So tune in next episode as we fast forward a couple of thousand years and time, take a trip to Beauty House with Henry VIII.

00:28:08: And hear about Lord Sheltzfordian's stories to boot!

00:28:11: That is all for us now Bye.