🎧 The Western Front at Dig Hill 80 with Simon Verdegem and Rob Schaefer
20th Century
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34m
Dan goes to an excavation that's happening now of a World War One fortification near the Belgian village of Wijtschate. He talks to the archaeologists and historians and anthropologists at work at the incredibly preserved, hotly contested ridge, before it is lost forever to the bulldozers later this year.
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