Author: Alberto Pearson

Growing up with the tales of the Pendle Witches and my Grandparents farm being a stone’s throw from Demdike’s reputed hovel I couldn’t help but be interested in local history. Early visits to Scotland expanded my interest and its carried on ever since. I’m only a armchair fan but once my family grow a bit […]

I have lived in the West Country all my life. I left school at 16 and have worked for a major bank throughout. I am married with one daughter aged 11. I first became interested in archaeology after senior school trips to Avebury, Caerleon and Caerphilly Castle, but my interest in history nosedived at the […]

Hi everyone, I live near Newmarket in suffolk and was born and raised around these parts. I have no qualifactions what so ever in the archaeological field just an enormous love of the programme and the upmost respect for the TT members, I have always been interested in the past but never had the brains […]

I have lived in Gravesend, Kent all my life. I’m a Customer Services Manager for the oldest printers in the World (apart from Guttenburg and Caxton, that is!) and also dabble in photography (available for weddings, portraits etc – only joking!). My interest in archaeology is very much non-professional. I have never taken a course […]

Married with two grown up daughters. Anything that comes out of the ground is of interest to me and have a strong interest in geology as well here in Powys, that is Brecon to Hay-on-Wye area. Always had an interest since the day I found a flint arrowhead as a boy. Do have a metal […]

Over the past few years I’ve cycled many hundreds of miles through some of the loveliest parts of southern and eastern England, mostly with a couple of friends. I’ve made my way from Land’s End to John O’Groats (or vice-versa) by three different and somewhat unusual routes, I’ve travelled a fair bit of the Sustrans […]

Viewing Time Team is an extension of study of geology – archaeology also deals with materials and time. Although academia has decreed that there is a separate subject area, time is continuous, geological and human processes are continuous and there should be no distinction. However, partitioning has and will continue to occur but there’s no […]

I was born in Manchester but grew up in Somerset and then Devon. As a child I was always interested in history and archaeology and constantly dug holes in my parents’ garden, much to their delight. My one and only find was a wheel from a steam train. As I grew older I developed an […]

I’m Ria, I live in The Hague, Holland. I have a keen interest in archaeology and history in general. I was an amateur archaeologist for a while, but due to lack of time, I had to give it up, for a while anyway. I started reading the “old forum” some 3.5 years ago, and after […]

I was born and still reside in Anlaby, bordering Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. After being educated at Ainthorpe Grove School, and the Hull Trinity House Navigation School, I commenced a career as a seagoing navigation officer in the British Merchant Navy. My wife, Judy, and I have been married since 1971 (the original) Richard & […]