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On Your Farm: Secrets Beneath the Soil

Secrets Beneath the Soil

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How can the history of a field affect the crops that grow in it today?

Historian, Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, visits a farm in Oxfordshire looking for secrets buried beneath the soil.

Can the history of a field affect the crops that grow in it today? The answer is yes.

In this programme, the historian, Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, visits a farm in Oxfordshire looking for secrets buried beneath the soil. She speaks to archaeologists and farmers about the impact historical human activity can have on today's crops; from raised phosphate levels on the site of a Roman villa, to increased lead along an old track.

She leans how the past can be used to inform the future of farming.

Producer: Heather Simons

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