And Did Those Feet

The Archaeology programme, Time Team, managed to find something of real importance at Windsor - the circular foundations of Edward III's Round Table building. Big Royal Dig from Channel4.com

We went to see the Sound Scientists' first gig at the Whitechapel on Saturday night. My first hip hop gig, the music was really great especially for a first gig! Backing was excellent, rapping was great, Harry the guitarist was bluesy and soulful and my daughters, Hetty Boo and lady Constance were fabulous.

Cycled to Binham Abbey A lovely ruined abbey with the Nave turned into a Parish Church - the conversion to Parish Church was delightfully bodged and so makes the front of the Church rather startling. (picture in wikipedia) Binham Abbey .

They are making museums pay £6,000 a year for a license to display human remains - totally inappropriate for museums to have to pay this. HTA - The Human Tissue Authority

Went for an excellent walk around the Burnhams in Norfolk. Interesting to see walls built with chalk and flint. I have excavated these sort of walls in London but have never seen whole houses made of chalk (and flint). Burnham market is very upmarket - in the evening we returned to see a gig by the Soft Machine - one of my favourite 60's bands. Very austere free form jazz - they bend over backwards to avoid musical cliche - perhaps too far!

Took my parents to visit Warham Camp - a very impressive double banked 'hillfort' on the edge of a very small river. Strange sloping site for such a large doubled banked fort. In the territory of the Iceni. It is a short walk from the excellent Three Horseshoes pub in Warham - a good place to discuss the Archaeology!. The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Warham Camp Hillfort

Pryor, Francis 'Britain A.D.' Harper Perennial 2004 An interesting read - attempting to debunk British archaeology. Francis Pryor has a nostalgic view of the history of Britain, which, using his background in prehistory, he disbelieves in the existence of any invasions in British history. He also loves the idea of continuity and his view is so-rose tinted as to be untrue! He believes the Saxons are a product of our historical imagination, and that Britain has always been a multicultural paradise. He is happy to ignore the existence of the English language as any evidence of a major change after the end of the roman period.