The September issue of British Archaeology is now in W H Smith's. It carries the first of what will be a regular contribution from Mick, called Mick's Travels. Given his fascination with early monasteries, it will be no surprise that his first field report is on the estate of Muchelney Abbey in Somerset. The illustrations include the aerial shots we expect of Mick.

[Apologies for cross-posting.]

An excellent and interesting article Jean. I look forward to reading Mick's contributions in future issues.

I subscribe to British Archaeology and received my copy about 10 days ago

And you never said a word!

This time I'm on the ball.

The November/December issue of British Archaeology is in the shops. Mick's contribution this time is on Anglesey. Time Team's dig there earlier this year brought back memories; Mick first visited the island in his teens. He reflects on its wealth of archaeology.

..... and what a lovely pic!!!

Yes - gorgeous view from the air looking across from Anglesey to Snowdonia.

I confess that I'm not sure whether the January issue of British Archaeology is in the shops, but I gather it has Mick tracking down a missing county.

I know this government is widely regarded as (at best) mistake-prone and/or (at worst) totally inept, but losing a county????!!!

Well, I deny all responsibility

Remember Avon? That unloved county came and went in next to no time. But I digress. Mick is after a county that was swallowed up by Gloucestershire long ago.

That's got to be Winchcombeshire - based around the Mercian royal seat at Winchcombe.

Soon after the West Saxons occupied English Mercia they divided it into Shires based around the towns and royal centres. Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick and Winchcombe.

The last remnants weren't swallowed by Gloucestershire till the Nineteenth Century as the relevant bits were covered by a hotchpotch of detached portions of Worcestershire embedded in Gloucestershire and Warwickshire.

Hey! Now people will feel they can give the article a miss!

The issue is in the shops folks, and full of interesting stuff.

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Originally posted by Jean Manco:
This time I'm on the ball.

The November/December issue of British Archaeology is in the shops. Mick's contribution this time is on Anglesey. Time Team's dig there earlier this year brought back memories; Mick first visited the island in his teens. He reflects on its wealth of archaeology.

I see he's been picked up on his reference to Romano-Pictish monuments on Anglesey.

The way TT rush around the country, I bet there have been quite a few mental blips like that one on film, which have ended up on the cutting-room floor. This one sneaked though the editorial and proof-reading process. Then of course it leaps to the eye once in print. It seems to be some sort of psychological law of publishing.

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Originally posted by Jean Manco:
It seems to be some sort of psychological law of publishing.

aka sod's law.

Yep.

The March/April issue is in the shops. This one has Mick writing about his visit to the Isle of Man.

Digger Mick makes a date

PRESENTER of Channel 4's Time Team, Professor Mick Aston, is appearing at the University of Winchester on Tuesday, February 27, to present the latest instalment of the Enterprise Lecture series.

From the Hampshire Chronicle

The May/June is available in WHSmith etc. In it Mick returns to his home territory of the Black Country, visiting Halesowen in the West Midlands (formerly in Worcestershire).

The July/August issue of BA is now available, complete with Mick's shortest travel yet. He turns his landscape archaeologist's eye on his oddly-shaped home parish of Winscombe in Somerset.

Time Team crops up elsewhere in this issue.

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The September issue of British Archaeology is now in W H Smith's.

That makes it the anniversary of Mick's first piece on his travels.

In this issue Mick gets excited by the association of Roman forts with early churches in County Durham. He was struck by this while filming two episodes of TT up there back to back.

The November/December2007 issue is now out, wherein Mick explains how he combined a Time Team shoot in Barra with a trip in his camper van, working up the islands of the Outer Hebrides.

In the January/February issue, now out, Mick seeks out Angles in Suffolk. He returns to West Stow, which he first visited nearly 30 years ago, takes a look at the new National Trust visitor centre at Sutton Hoo and tramps around other sites.

The March/April issue is now out. It has Mick wandering in Anglo-Saxon North Mercia, looking at early monastery and minster sites, including the famed Saxon churches at Repton, Derbyshire, and Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire.

The May/June issue of British Archaeology British Archaeology is now out, in which Mick delves into origins of the many places in Cornwall named after local saints.