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This year archaeologists found 7,000 year-old fish traps in the Severn estuary and to mark this discovery top Cambridge landscape archaeologist Simon Draper joins us to discuss the intriguing history of the River and the people who’ve lived and worked on it over the centuries.

What part did fishing and waterborne trades play in medieval and Elizabethan life? How did the estuary dwellers ingeniously deal with floods? And how exactly did Severn elvers and lamprey feature in the courts of medieval Kings?

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