I am a freelance writer and editor living in Canada. I got interested in archaeology through my recent ten-year stint as managing editor for a magazine that focused on traditional homes – in Canada that means anything over 100 years old! Many of our articles concentrated on renovating older buildings: peeling off layers of modern “improvements” to find the hidden gem underneath, and then working to restore the building as it originally looked, either by salvaging existing materials or replicating elements to match the old.
My other interests include writing, reading (especially fantasy and historical mysteries), gardening, and garden/nature photography. Time Team is especially interesting to me because Canada is a relatively “young” country with a sparse population and a short history of European settlement. To us, something that dates back to the late 17th or early 18th centuries is considered old, at least in my part of the country, so seeing buildings and artifacts dating to the medieval or Roman periods, or even earlier, is astounding to me. I look forward to many more years of Time Team programmes!
Special Interest Areas
Medieval and Victorian