Potted history

 I first went digging in 1964.

My first "proper" excavation was in 1968 when I assisted in the excavation of a mesloithic site on Hengistbury Head in Dorset.

I was a "Digger" from 1973 to 1984, and a miseryguts from 1985 to 2007 when I worked on pipeline excavations for 2 years.

I directed the excavation of a Dorset Barrow in 1975, in which I completely removed it from the face of the planet, and found not a bone, nor a pot, nor a sherd, nor anything that might represent the idea that the barrow was a funerary monument, as i was lead to believe.

I don't think I ever recovered from that, and I have questioned every archaeological theory ever since.

I came to Orkney first in 1980, and having all my living relatives here in Orkney, I moved to Orkney in 2019.

Here, I started researching Neolithic Britain, and Orkney.

Not satisfied with the idea that people had boats in Neolithic Britain that could cross the English Channel, I researched everything that I could to prove that they did have boats.

Then I set out to prove that they did not need boats. That there was land between Europe and England, and land between Scotland and Orkney.

That led me to uncover the extraordinary story of a small group of Neolithic people who became castaways on each of the British Isles.


https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html



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