{"id":1404,"date":"2019-03-31T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2019-03-31T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:25:51","slug":"river-hunting-with-the-history-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2019\/03\/31\/river-hunting-with-the-history-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"River Hunting with the History Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-45399134\">scorching summer of 2018<\/a> was a great gift for archaeologists. For the first time in almost two decades an unbroken dry spell brought features below the surface of the landscape clearly into view. These \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastperfect.org.uk\/archaeology\/parchmarks.html\">parch marks<\/a>\u2019, visible only for as long as the weather holds, provide the very fullest evidence of the foundations of earthworks, buildings, roadways not only of a medieval date but reaching back across the whole timespan from the Industrial Revolution into pre-history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1406\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/parch-marks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1406\" class=\"wp-image-1406 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/parch-marks-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/parch-marks-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/parch-marks.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parch marks reveal lost buildings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It seemed counter-intuitive then to take a call from a TV researcher developing a new series devoted to underwater archaeology. In fact, there was good reason why The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.co.uk\/\">History Channel<\/a> had chosen this moment to schedule the filming of their new series aiming to show that a stretch of inland waterway is as rich in hidden archaeology and history as any expanse of ocean. If not carrying quite the same decompression risk of diving the naval wrecks off the coastlines of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_shipwrecks_of_Africa\">Africa<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_shipwrecks_of_Australia\">Australia<\/a>, you\u2019d be best advised not to wade very far into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Avon,_Warwickshire\">Avon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Severn\">Severn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Ouse,_Yorkshire\">Ouse<\/a> except when the rainwater table was at an all-time low. The series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.co.uk\/shows\/river-hunters\">River Hunters<\/a>, takes its inspiration from the USA where searches of the waterways close to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\">Civil War<\/a> battlefields have uncovered some remarkable artefacts. Arguably the trend-setter is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCv61IAZLDELwk2Kk5hfX0mg\">Beau Ouimette<\/a>, whose self-produced shows on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/?gl=GB&amp;hl=en-GB\">You Tube<\/a> are on the brink of becoming a global phenomenon. Producers persuaded Beau to bring his unique brand of wading to Britain, to sift the course of some of our most historical significant watercourses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1405\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Beau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"wp-image-1405 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Beau-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Beau-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Beau-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Beau-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Beau.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beau Ouimette<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beau\u2019s passion is battlefield history and it was hardly surprising that his schedule should take in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tewkesbury\">Tewkesbury<\/a>, where tributaries of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Avon,_Warwickshire\">Avon<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Severn\">Severn<\/a> frame the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wars_of_the_Roses\">Wars of the Roses<\/a> battle where the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_Lancaster\">Lancastrian cause<\/a> was decisively defeated in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Tewkesbury\">1471<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1408\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkesbury1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1408\" class=\"wp-image-1408 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkesbury1-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkesbury1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkesbury1.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tewkesbury&#8217;s medieval centre<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1407\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/king-johns-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-image-1407 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/king-johns-bridge-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/king-johns-bridge-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/king-johns-bridge-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/king-johns-bridge.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King John&#8217;s bridge: Tewkesbury&#8217;s medieval river-crossing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tewkesbury was not as large a battle as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Towton\">Towton<\/a> (1461), seeing combined forces of no more than 10,000; nor did it bring a virtual blitzkrieg to the town as occurred at both the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Battle_of_St_Albans\">first<\/a> (1455) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Battle_of_St_Albans\">second<\/a> (1461) battles of St Albans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkes-reeanct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-image-1409 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkes-reeanct-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkes-reeanct-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/tewkes-reeanct.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1471 battle of Tewkesbury, annually re-enacted in the town&#8217;s medieval festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But it did represent no lesser watershed moment: the Lancastrian interest was all but destroyed. Leading Lancastrian nobility lay dead, among them, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Courtenay,_15th_Earl_of_Devon\">John Courtenay, earl of Devon<\/a>, who had only just returned to the royalist fold. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_VI_of_England\">Henry VI<\/a> was captured and then killed; his son and heir, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_of_Westminster,_Prince_of_Wales\">Edward of Westminster<\/a>, died in the mel\u00e9e; Henry\u2019s queen, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_of_Anjou\">Margaret of Anjou<\/a>, who had led his the cause for the best part of twenty years, was forced to return to France.<\/p>\n<p>The river tributaries played a central and decisive role in the battle. They were the reason that battle was drawn at Tewkesbury: the Lancastrian army had hoped to cross the Severn at Gloucester but the Yorkist force stood in their way, so they had tried to pass ahead of them by pressing further north. When the Lancastrian battle-formation was broken and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_York\">Yorkists<\/a> set about a rout, the remnant of King Henry\u2019s force fled for the Severn bank knowing that if they crossed it they might fight another day. Most were cut down by the waterside, or were drowned. The battlefield also lay in the shadow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tewkesbury_Abbey\">Benedictine abbey of Tewkesbury<\/a> its own precincts bordered by the same river tributaries. In the rout some struck out for the abbey, although for the Lancastrians the only sanctuary they found was a burial place on sacred ground.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1413\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Tewkesbury-interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-image-1413 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Tewkesbury-interior-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Tewkesbury-interior-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/Tewkesbury-interior.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tewkesbury&#8217;s Benedictine abbey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So Beau and team came in search of both the Wars of the Roses and the monastic tradition. It was the last truly hot weekend of the summer and they waded into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Swilgate\">Swilgate<\/a> south of the abbey grounds with the excitement of a day at the seaside. Perhaps those Civil War sites are very willing with their secrets but here it was slow going. By the half-day mark, the low-lying murky water had offered up only some very eclectic signs of twentieth-century life: a roadworker\u2019s lantern and a cache of printers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Letterpress_printing\">letterpress type<\/a>. Early afternoon took us no further back in time but gave us the basis for a narrative: a World War 2 era <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Defence_Service\">firewarden<\/a>\u2019s tin helmet, a testament to the six-year vigil that watched over the abbey tower.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1411\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-image-1411 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-511-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The firewarden&#8217;s helmet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Predictably perhaps, it was only as the light finally began to fade, and even the ebullient Beau looked less than comfortable seven hours into his wet-suit, that the river offered a tantalising hint of medieval Tewkesbury. Pressed deep into a wedge of silt, the detector led to hand-worked pins and studs surrounding the remains of leather strips \u2013 straps? &#8211; of early date. Naturally, given it was now past 7pm, there was an immediate and unspoken agreement to interpret them as battlefield artefacts. An archer\u2019s arm-guard: sure thing! For this monastic historian, it was the less romantic but (much) more plausible provenance of a block of dressed stone we also recovered that almost made the wait worthwhile.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1410\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-image-1410 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/September-2018-527-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stone-block<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here there was evidence of the monastery\u2019s development of water meadow south of their precinct, and perhaps of the fishery that fed the community, and kept them, more-or-less, within the letter of chapter 39 of their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict\">Rule<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.osb.org\/rb\/text\/rbemjo2.html#39\">On the measure of food<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/rh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-image-1412 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/rh-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/rh-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/rh-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/rh-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2019\/03\/rh.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Hunters<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>River Hunters<\/em> is now showing on The History Channel, Mondays, @ 9pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">James Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scorching summer of 2018 was a great gift for archaeologists. 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