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I've been away with work and research, but still super enthused about the Hell-Fire Clubs! The media types quite like the story as ther...

We hopped over to Two Mile Hill School yesterday to do a spot of GPR and soil analysis, thanks to the team of Dept. volunteers - 2 first ye...

The sands of time are slippery feckers. I haven't posted since November, and for good reason. It's been PhD writing season, the las...

Last week we took the first year anthropology students to Glastonbury. Our archaeology expert, Dr. Stuart Prior, guided them through the ar...

Who knew that the cradle of Egyptian civilisation rests in Cornwall? No one, because it doesn't, but that won't stop the wildlife a...

Shall we start with the big news, and get it out of the way? Only the little fact that our excavations on Hatteras Island have been covered...

My sustainable development education role at the University means a lot to me. I've been working at it for over 3 years and, while it...

Most of May has been taken over by prep for Berkeley and then getting back on site. It's the 11th year of excavations and the new batch...

We are gearing up for another student-training and research excavation at Berkeley Castle, starting from 18th May. While going through the ...

Not really, but I love those words, spelunking and speleology. Rolls off the tongue better than "archaeological site recording at a li...

Since late March, I have been helping out on Prof. Mark Horton's excavations on Hatteras Island, North Colony. The site is tied to th...

There are places on the internet where people have trawled through Google's scanned books and collated the traces of the people who s...

Just downloaded a host of Autodesk programmes for free via the University's licensing agreements with the company. After only a few min...

Those eighteenth-century dudes really knew how to make a lady feel special. Paul Whitehead, famed for his associations with the Hell-Fire C...

As one does when back in the home country, I spent Christmas with the family. And what better way to start the festive morning, than with a...

Did you ever wonder what would happen if you asked your students to express their own narratives in the style of ancient rock art? I did. A...

Just a short drive outside of Bristol are the beautiful stone circles of Stanton Drew . I accompanied Prof. Mark Horton and our enthusiasti...

This year, my supervisor and I were very excited to receive funding from the University of Bristol to conduct some innovative teaching appr...

Back in May/June, the University asked me to plan and manage the Colston Research Symposium: "Remembering the Great War: Perspectives ...

If you haven't already, check out my instagram account. I trawled through my archives and found some super archaeology pics from my tra...