Time Team Series

[kerryb]

Interesting link CU

I'm confused though, how can Mick be a Professor in Landscape Archaelogy and yet, according to Genresearch not hold any Archaelogy degree??

I've alway like Mick, he has a good habit of being able to bring Tony back down to earth and I love some of his jumpers.

Kerry

[Emmeline]

I know there are many  of us here in NZ who would love to see the WDYTUA series - even in this neck of the woods we do know who all the celebrities are 
I wrote to our TV channels when the first series showed in the UK - asking if they could purchase it. Perhaps we might see it in 5 years or so - one never knows and lives in hope.

[stockman fred]

Jean wrote: Makes you wonder what is still buried beneath the soil all over UK.

we did some fieldwalking at ploughing time with some really keen flint experts and they explained what to look for in the ploughsoil- once you have it pointed out, you start seeing worked flints everywhere. You realise there is a whole hidden dimension you weren't even aware of lying at your feet. These tools are still sharp as razors after 6 or 8000 years- one  lives in the tractor for cutting bale strings
I find the whole thing so exciting- "like being an explorer in your own back yard" someone said.
Fred

[tarnee]

Hi All,

Anne, many thanks for the link, had a good laugh, seen a few single shoes in oz too and a few unmentionables

Fred, l hope your sister and lawnmower are ok. 

Emmeline, l think the powers that be think because we live at the bottom of the world don't want to know, that said a very large proportion of us are from the UK, Here in oz the ABC has loads of UK programs just not the ones we want

Jean

[RJ_Paton]

I'm confused though, how can Mick be a Professor in Landscape Archaelogy and yet, according to Genresearch not hold any Archaelogy degree??

Re Mick Aston

When Mick was working on his PhD, he and his girlfriend arranged to go and see her parents, with Mick planning to show them all the notes for his thesis, to impress them with his seriousness. But, on the way, he and his girlfriend stopped at a T Rex concert, someone broke into Mick's van and all the notes were stolen. This is why Mick is now one of the few professors in Britain not to have a PhD!

from http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/biog_mick.html

[kerryb]

Thanks Falkryn

Mind you he must have got a degree to have been able to go to Phd surely??

Kerry

[Helen D]

I live just down the road from Shapwick (see CU's link) and while he was working there, Mick used to come into the local primary school which my 2 children attended. He took them field walking, and came into the school regularly, answering their questions and showing them 'finds'.

My son was thrilled to be doing 'real archaeology' at the age of 8, and was inspired by Mick. He starts an Archaeology degree course this month!

Helen

[CU]

Wonderful Helen, I hope he enjoys it. Good luck to him 

[RJ_Paton]

Thanks Falkryn

Mind you he must have got a degree to have been able to go to Phd surely??

Kerry

I believe that his original degree may have been in Geography as it was this he was originally studying along with archaeology before he became sidetracked fulltime onto archaeology. The book he has written concerning "Landscape Archaeology" is considered by many to be the definitive text on the subject.