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7 Mar 2011 09:59:12
Television presenter Mark Horton attracted a crowd of more than 100 keen archaeologists to the University of Bedfordshire.
The man from BBC Coast was invited as part of the University’s community engagement strategy and he gave the first in a series of special lectures on a variety of subjects organised by the University.
His entertaining lecture, Why Archaeology?, took place last Monday night (28 February) in the Lecture Theatre in the new Campus Centre at Luton and was followed by a question and answer session.
Local expert Wesley Keir, Project Officer for Albion Archaeology, opened the evening by presenting the report on the archaeological dig performed on the site of the new Campus Centre near Luton’s iconic St Mary’s Church. Further details here.
After the main event, which was introduced by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Les Ebdon CBE, a selection of artefacts from Albion Archaeology and Stockwood Discovery Centre also went on display near the Students’ Union.
Horton, who is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol, has been one of the team of presenters on the BBC programme Coast which explores the coastline of Britain since 2005. He has also directed excavations all over the world including the Caribbean, East Africa, Egypt, France and the UK.
He said afterwards: “I was delighted as the audience was very engaged and interested. You need a sense of history and the past and things must be preserved for the future. It’s really great that the University is conscious of its heritage.
“I had read the report on the archaeological dig before I came and I was very interested in it. It was an unusual and important find and I congratulate the University for doing such a fantastic job with its archaeology.”
The photos show Mark Horton with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Les Ebdon CBE, and Wesley Keir from Albion Archaeology; and Mark with Ash Carline, the University's Capital Projects Manager, and Students' Union President Lyndsay Murphy
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