magnetometer survey

BELOW Felicity Wild and I helped Martin Aitken with the proton magnetometer survey. I wore my school rugby jersey. She took off her sweater in the hot weather and never saw it again.

Surveying Verulamium

We all gathered round on another day, when a whoop of excitement emerged from the next-door shop, where Professor Frend was working in a cellar. He had just found the lovely bronze statuette of Venus, now a proud exhibit in the Verulamium Museum

Main One of the most remote places in Britain, Foula island, 15 miles west of Shetland, is dominated by high mountains to the south and west. Inset At 1220ft, the cliffs at Kame are the highest in Britain. Even the low shelf to the left is higher than Beachy Head.

Stones & solstices: on Scotland’s remotest island

Today, only 20 people live on Foula, and the ferry takes just one car at a time. More than 3,000 years ago, Bronze Age people erected a monument of 290 standing stones on the tiny, rocky, storm-battered island of Foula. As John Oswin reports, members of the Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society – working a long way from home – have been exploring.