20th July 2009, 05:49 PM
Not sure WHY I care- a few possible factors - being taken out by my dad, a country vet, in the early 1960's to see the end of an era, the last farmer in the area still working his land with Clydesdales, and a fully functional water poweed sawmill on a farm, a boyhood interest in blood and gore which led to military history nd hence to Roman army etc, pocket money job as a teenager working for the man who set up the Biggar Museum Trust and helping to move ehibits in to the extension (hell, these old fashined telephone exchange units were heavy!!)(and riding a delivery bike round the town - Eeeeh, you don't see many of them nowadays). Holiday that took in Hadrian's Wall, Welsh Castles and Arbour Low - and discovering that archaeology was much more iteresting than geology at University, then discovering the incredible ignorance of huge sectors of the public about their archaeology when I was working at Butser d working to cange t evr since.....and so on!