Monthly Archives: November 2012

Late Autumn Colour

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Francis Pryor

God, what a boring title! It’s the sort of thing you read in bad gardening magazines and the article then tells you how to grow the plants that the nursery trade is desperately trying to get rid of before the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening | Tagged autumn colour, fuchsia Tom West, gardening, Kniphofia rooperi, Rhamnus frangula asplenifolia, Viburnum x bodnantense

The Autumn Clear-Out

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Francis Pryor

Houses have their spring cleans, gardens their autumn clear-out. Personally, I don’t go over-board on my autumn clear-out too early, because if you dead-head everything in the borders, the poor garden birds are denied their seed larder for the winter. … Continue reading →

Posted in Farming, Gardening | Tagged gardening, lambing, pruning, rams, sheep, sheep farming, tups

Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Alan Cadbury

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Francis Pryor

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

Flag Fen, 30 years on

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Francis Pryor

We discovered the extraordinary Bronze Age site at Flag Fen, Peterborough, exactly 30 years ago. To be honest I’m not certain of the precise date, but I think it was around the 3rd, or 4th of November, 1982. I’ve described … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting | Tagged archaeology, Charles French, crowd funding, DigVentures, Flag Fen, Francis Pryor, Making History

Time Team. The Great War: the great leveller

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Francis Pryor

Next Sunday is Remembrance Sunday: 11/11/12. At 4.40 in the afternoon Channel 4 will be broadcasting the programme we filmed at the Machine Gun Corps training camp at Belton Park, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire. I’m not sure how this will … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, History, In the Long Run, Time Team | Tagged Belton House, Francis Pryor, Time Team, World War I

Autumn Leaves

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Francis Pryor

I suppose it’s natural to want to extol autumn colour. After all, the main flush of changing leaves is relatively rapid – usually no more than a week or two after the first frosts. In North America the fall happens … Continue reading →