29th July 2008, 03:19 PM
Dr Horton set out his stall for accurate TV archaeology in June 2001: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...egree.html
Quote:quote:A NEW university degree that will teach graduates how to make episodes of Time Team and other archaeological programmes is to begin later this year, in an attempt to make television history programmes more accurate. Academics at Bristol University, who will run the MA course in Archaeology for Screen Media with producers from the Channel 4 series, said that the new qualification was needed because many historical programmes contained significant errors... Dr Horton said: "Some are very good, but others have mistakes. For instance, in What the Romans Did for Us, they said that the mile castles on Hadrian's Wall were 14 miles apart, when actually they are only eight miles apart. It might seem a trivial detail, but these things are important."