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 reason for not treating them as a homogeneous subject governed only by time.
Sandy’s day job is a Secretary and Registrar to an Independent School. Received her BA (Hons) degree from the Open University in 1990, and in 1999 her B.Sc. In January 2000 started an M.A in Cornish Studies with the University of Exeter by distance learning.
By having more archaeology books in the house and having been inducted into geomorphology and landscape archaeology by field trips, recently began to take an interest in the Dark Age and Mediaeval periods.
Special Interest Areas
Historiography of Cornwall, womens’ role in mining communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (proposed MA dissertation)
Website
http://www.colbyweb.co.uk/a>
Cornwall geology, history, archaeology, Industrial Archaeology; Kite Aerial Photography; Old Measures; Field trips into Cornwall