Have you been on exciting travels and what have you found on them?Charlotte and Oliver

Hi guys! Yes, I have travelled to some exciting places, like Iceland and Australia, but only ever on holiday and not while I was working! It was fascinating seeing Icelandic villages where the oldest building was the church that had been the only thing to survive a lava flow because it was on the only hill in the area! The best place I have worked was as an archaeologist was in Orkney, where I was part of a team excavating a Viking house on the island of Westray.

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Ian Milsted

Ian works for York Archaeological Trust, managing excavations and surveys. He comes from Orkney and he once dug on a site packed with headless Romans!

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My 10yr old daughter wants to be an archaeologist and is mad keen on history. Can you recommend any books for someone her age? Oliver Marshall

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