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Category Archives: Archaeology
Hold Everything! Alan Cadbury Image Discovered
I’ve been trying to find a picture of Alan Cadbury because the nice people at Unbound thought I ought to give him some publicity in my blog, what with Hay-on-Wye coming up and everything. But when it came to looking through … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, books
Tagged Alan Cadbury
Time Team Series 20, My Fourth Episode: Coniston Copper Mines
The film to be shown this coming Sunday (February 3rd) at 4.20 (yes, that’s 1620 hours) was filmed high in the Cumbrian Fells, within the shadow of the Old Man of Coniston. We actually did the filming in the last … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged archaeology, coniston, copper mine, Francis Pryor, Time Team
Time Team Series 20, episode 3, Henham Hall, Suffolk: a place with Latitude
Some readers of this blog may have been to the Latitude music festival, which is held every summer in the park of Henham Hall, near Southwold, just back from the Suffolk coast. I haven’t been to the festival myself, but … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged cork oak, country houses, Francis Pryor, Hektor Rous, Henham Hall, Henham Park, Latitude, Time Team
Time Team: The 20th Series, Second Episode: Rural Cardiff
Whaat? Rural Cardiff??? Yes, that’s what I said. And I’ll repeat: Rural Cardiff. We filmed last April and of course it rained. And rained. We’d just finished lambing, so I wasn’t particularly looking forward to what I’d been told would … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged Caerau, Cardiff, Ely, hillfort, Iron Age, Time Team
Time Team: The 20th Series Starts next Sunday – And We’re Going Down with a Pang … or should that be BANG!
The first episode of the 20th, and last, Time Team series is going to be screened next Sunday, January 6th at 5.25 on Channel 4. As is the usual practice of broadcasters, they’re going to be showing the best one … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting
Tagged Brancaster, David Gurney, Francis Pryor, Phil Harding, Roman fort, Romans, Time Team
Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food? Part 3
In this experiment I was not so much concerned with yield, as with storage. Having grown hazels for nearly twenty years, I do not need to be convinced of their productivity and to some extent estimates of ancient yield are … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged cobnuts, Coryllus maxima, Corylus avellana, hazel, hazelnuts
Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food? Part 2
My interest in hazel nuts began on my first dig, back in 1963 when I was a volunteer excavator on an Iron Age hillfort in Bedfordshire, about half an hour’s drive from my parents’ house. I’d just passed my driving … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged cobnuts, Coryllus maxima, Corylus avellana, hazel, hazelnuts
Preliminary Musings: Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food?
Prehistory and archaeology are subjects where traditions die hard and where orthodoxies can rule the roost for generations. It must be great to prick balloons, but having said that, I don’t think I’m a great believer in acting the iconoclast: … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged archaeology, Corylus avellana, Francis Pryor, hazel, hazelnuts, Maisie Taylor, trees, writing
Bonny Scotland
I’ve got a very soft spot for Scotland, and it’s not just that I like the people, the whisky and Rebus. It’s also got nothing to do with Maisie’s impeccable highland credentials. She hails from Moray, not far from John … Continue reading
Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Alan Cadbury
Like with all old friends, it’s difficult to recall when precisely I first met Alan. I think it may have been on one of those interminable trans-Atlantic flights, back in the 1970s, when I used to make regular trips to … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, My life
Tagged Alan Cadbury, archaeology, Elly Griffiths, Francis Pryor, Seahenge, The Crossing Places
