
Toby Driver
Dr Toby Driver FSA, Senior Investigator (Aerial Survey) at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, author of 'Hillforts of Iron Age Wales' and Time Team podcast guest.
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Sep 29, 2026
The Royal Navy's lost shipwrecks
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Martyn WilliamsHOST
I mean, Helen's given a little potted history, but can you sort of explain why we're seeing them more now than we seem to have ever done in the past?

Toby DriverGUEST
Yeah, and Helen has given a very good description there and in a previous podcast as well about the heatwave, a really clear explanation of what happens when a site is buried, lost, flattened at ground level, unless it reappears clearly, particularly when you see it from the air or on internet aerial photographs like Google Maps or from a drone.

Toby DriverGUEST
But everybody, you know, in their gardens will have old paths, concrete paths, old flower beds, maybe that have been covered up in the last 40 years.

Toby DriverGUEST
In a dry summer, those concrete paths are going to part from wither the grass and appear as yellow lines, a bit like we have with Roman roads or the walls of Roman villas and Roman forts.

Toby DriverGUEST
And then deep ditches dug around prehistoric farms or pits where people used to bury their rubbish.

Toby DriverGUEST
So crops, wheat, barley, even grass, growing over a deep pit when the rest of the subsoil is pretty stony or clay, that'll show up as a dark green mark in that grass.
