The land before time
In 1982 he discovered the waterlogged timber of a Bronze Age ceremonial site at Flag Fen, near Peterborough, and in 1987, with his wife Mairie Taylor, he set up the Fenland Archaeological Trust which opened Flag Fen to the public.
He is known to British viewers from the TV show Time Team and the series Britain BC and Britain AD. This book builds on all these skills to range widely — perhaps too widely — from Britain after the Ice Ages through to what he calls ‘Sat Nav Britain’.
