ARTICLES & EDITORIAL WORK

ARTICLES

 

ARTICLES ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY

 

1985 Stonehenge: a Prologue. The Unknown, September, 4-8.

1985 Stonehenge: the Bluestone Mystery. The Unknown, October, 37-41.

1985 Stonehenge: the Culmination. The Unknown, November, 4-8.

1985 Modern Mysteries of an Ancient Giant. The Unknown, November,  27-31.

1985 Stonehenge in Decline. The Unknown, December, 60-64.

1986 Stonehenge: the Fall. The Unknown, January, 18-22.

1986 Ancient Writing in Eastern Europe. The Unknown, January, 63-67.

1986 The Easter Island Statues, Part 1. The Unknown, February, 4-9.

1986 Dialogues with Death: the Long Barrows. The Unknown, March,  17-21.

1986 The Easter Island Statues, Part 2. The Unknown, March, 42-47.

1986 Avebury: the Vanished Obelisk. The Unknown, April, 4-10.

1986 The Treasure of Maes Howe, The Unknown, April, 70-74.

1986 Avebury: the North Circle. The Unknown, May, 28—33.

1986 The Fighting Man: a Saxon Origin for the Wilmington Giant. The Unknown, May, 54-59.

1986 The Tower of Babel, Part 1. The Unknown, June, 5-10.

1986 The Etruscans: Origins. The Unknown, June, 46-51.

1986 Avebury: the Great Circle. The Unknown, June, 70-76.

1986 The Magic Circle and the Talisman. The Unknown, July, 20-26.

1986 Avebury: the Megalithic Avenues. The Unknown, July, 41-47.

1986 The Tower of Babel, Part 2. The Unknown, July, 57-61.

1986 The Etruscans: Decline and Fall. The Unknown,  July, 71-75.

1986 Knossos: Finding the Lost Labyrinth. The Unknown, August, 32-38.

1986 The Forgotten Stone Circles: the Megaliths of Stanton Drew. The Unknown, August, 63-68.

1986 Druids Out? Exploring the Supernatural, August, 42-43.

1986 The Glynde Goddess. Exploring the Supernatural, August, 70-82.

1986 Knossos: Opening the West Wing. The Unknown, September, 57-62

1986 Knossos: King's and Queen's Apartments. The Unknown, October, 56-61.

1986 Tristan - Romance or Reality? The Unknown, November, 65-69.

1986 Sutton Hoo: Finding the Hoard. The Unknown,  December, 29-33.

1986 Knossos, the City of the Dead. The Unknown, December, 57-62.

1987 Knossos: the Lady of the Labyrinth. The Unknown, January, 53-58.

1987 Knossos: the Atlantis Connection. The Unknown, February, 46-52.

1987 Sutton Hoo: the Missing King. The Unknown, February, 70-74.

1987 The Ring of Stone, Part 1. Exploring the Supernatural, March, 52-52.

1987 The Treasure of King Priam. The Unknown, April, 21-26.

1987 The Forgotten Emperor. The Unknown, April, 54-58.

1987 The Ring of Stone, Part 2.  Exploring the Supernatural,  April,  51-56.

1987 Megalithic Astronomers, Part 1: Stonehenge and the Solstice. The Unknown, May, 5-10.

1987 Megalithic Astronomers, Part 2: The Mansion of the Gods.  The Unknown, June,  59-65.

1987 The Ring of Stone, Part 3. Exploring the Supernatural,  June,  43-49.

1987 Great Zimbabwe: Africa's Lost Royal Capital, Part 1. The Unknown,   July, 5-9.

1997 The Cerne Giant. The Ley Hunter Journal 129, 36-9.                          

1998 Stretching Credibility: a Perspective on the Long Man of Wilmington. 3^rd Stone 31, 10-12.

1998 The Long Man: the Wilmington Giant reconsidered. The Ley Hunter Journal 131, 27-30.

1998 Restoring Stonehenge: a Millennium project? 3^rd Stone 32, 6-9.

1999 Restoring Stonehenge - An Update. 3^rd Stone 34, 34

1999 New views across an old landscape: reassessing Stonehenge (1). 3^rd Stone 35, 12-18.

1999 New views across an old landscape: reassessing Stonehenge (2). 3^rd Stone 36, 31-38.

1999 Iconography and the identity of the Giant, in  The Cerne Giant: an Antiquity on Trial, edited by Katherine Barker, Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences Occasional Paper 5, 43-50. Oxbow Press.

2000 Fair play for Arthur and Geoffrey of Monmouth? Writing ‘King Arthur: the Truth behind the Legend.’ Pendragon 28.

2000  The epic of the Stonehenge Bluestones: were they moved by ice, or by people? 3^rd  Stone 39, 12-25. 

2002 Shape-shifting: the changing outline of the Long Man of Wilmington. Sussex Archaeological Collections 140, 83-95.

2015 The Seaford Stone Axe Hoard. Sussex Archaeological Collections 153, 203-8. (co-authored with Alex Thompson)

                                                               

HISTORY & MYSTERY ARTICLES

 

1986 Wilmington Priory: a Medieval Mystery. The Unknown, February,  51-55.

1986 Saints, Shrines and Miracles,  Part 2:  The Shrine of St Thomas.   Exploring the Supernatural, December, 50-55.

1986 Captain Kidd's Treasure. The Unknown, October, 5-9.

1986 Saints, Shrines and Miracles, Part 1. Exploring the Supernatural,  November, 74-78.

1986 Saints, Shrines and Miracles,  Part 2:  The Shrine of St Thomas.   Exploring the Supernatural, December, 50-55.

1987 Death and Destiny, Part 1: An Apparent Connection. The Unknown,  January, 70-73.

1987 Saints, Shrines and Miracles, Part 3: The End of the Shrine.  Exploring the Supernatural, January, 79-85.

1987 Death and Destiny, Part 2: a Possible Solution. The Unknown,  February, 9-13.

1987 The Money Pit Mystery. The Unknown, February, 49-52.

1987 An Occasional Hell: the Mystery of the Entombed Toads. The Unknown, June, 14-18.

1987    Fish from the Sky. The Unknown, September, 45-48.

1987    The Romanov File,  Part 1:  The Tsar is Dead. The Unknown,  November, 13-18.

1987    Strange Appearances. The Unknown, November, 50-55.

1987 Dragons  -  1:  The Heraldic Dragon. The Unknown, December,   12-14.

1987 The Romanov File,  Part 2:   The Unknown Woman. The Unknown,             December, 49-54.

1988 Dragons  -  2:  The Loathly Worms. The Unknown, January,  13-17.  

1988 The Romanov File, Part 3:  Anastasia - Fact and Fiction. The Unknown, January, 47-52.

1997 The Schoolboy and the Poet’s Widow. Gordon Lawson: a Sussex composer. Sussex Life, December 1997, 34.                                                             

 

 

ARTICLES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY

 

1975    The Origin of Chalk Dry Valleys: an Interpretation of the South Downs. Proceedings of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, 16,  28—34.

            Existing theories about the formation of dry valleys are reconciled by recognising that there are two distinct generations of dry valleys. The First System of older and larger valleys belonging to the master network was desiccated long enough ago for scarp retreat to behead them; these make the major wind gaps through the Downs. The Second System of newer and smaller valleys was formed under more recent periglacial conditions.

 

1976    Trends in Northamptonshire’s rainfall. Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society, 37, 96—8.

            Although rainfall fluctuates irregularly from year to year, the 1880s were exceptionally wet, the 1890s were exceptionally dry, and a slight pulse possibly associated with the sunspot cycle can be detected from 1900 onwards. The ‘recent’ (1916—50 mean) is slightly wetter than the immediate past (1881—1915 mean) and may be part of a continuing trend towards increasing wetness and by implication increasing warmth. The analysis indicates that the gradual moistening and warming of the climate during the twentieth century may have been the result of variations in solar radiation rather than man-made greenhouse effect. The peaks of sunspot activity were progressively higher, suggesting a cause for the background warming.

 

1976    The Floodplain Gravels of the River Nene.  Mercian Geologist,  6,  33—47.

            The composition, morphology, stratigraphy and date of the gravel bed flooring the Nene valley provide evidence of ancient river behaviour that was very different from that of the present River Nene. The existence of a deep and very large river channel buried beneath the floodplain deposits was assumed by G. H. Dury, but I challenge this assumption in the light of new subsurface evidence. The same new evidence casts doubt on Professor Dury’s explanations of meandering valleys generally. This is a key article in casting serious doubt on the validity of Dury’s theories about the shapes of river valleys and past river behaviour - and on the integrity of his methods as a researcher.

 

1977    Periglacial Pediments in Central and Southern England.  Catena, 4, 111—121.

            I discover a periglacial pediment of Devensian date beneath the deposits of the River Nene in Northamptonshire, and investigate the river deposits of selected valleys in central and southern England in search of parallels. The morphology and date of the samples illustrate that the formation of nearly flat surfaces was widespread in the valleys of the Devensian tundra zone around 20,000-30,000 years ago. I discuss the processes responsible and examine the detailed forms associated with the fossil Devensian pediment so that further examples may be identified elsewhere.

 

1980    The Second and Third Terraces of the River Nene. Mercian Geologist, 8,  29—46.

             I study the distribution, composition and stratigraphy of the River Nene’s Second and Third Terrace gravels, following my earlier study of the

floodplain and First Terrace sequence. The three terraces are seen to             be substantially similar and imply similar palaeoclimatic conditions at the            time of emplacement. No absolute dates are available for the older terraces, but the circumstantial evidence for deposition within cold sub-stages of the Devensian is strong and the author suggests a chronology for the Nene valley using terrace type-areas as names for the major stadials: Longueville, Woodston and Ecton. These have not been generally adopted by other geomorphologists, and the Ecton stadial subsequently became known as the Dimlington stadial.          

 

1980    The Morphological Implications of the Milton Sand near Northampton. East Midland Geographer,  7,  195—205.

           I use the distribution of the Milton Sand deposit just southwest of Northampton and the form of the floor on which it rests to reconstruct the course of the river which transported the sand. A newly discovered buried valley at Yardley Chase is interpreted as a continuation of the Milton Sand valley, resolving one of the long-standing morphological problems surrounding the Milton Sand. The composition and stratigraphy of the deposit show that it was laid down by a river with a periglacial regime during an early Wolstonian stadial preceding the onset of full-glacial conditions. The burial of the Yardley Chase valley segment and the replacement of this ‘proto-Nene’ valley by its modern equivalent to the north are both attributed to glacial interference in the Wolstonian cold stage.

 

1980    Fluvioperiglacial Pedimentation: a General Theory of Fluvial Valley Development in Cool Temperate Lands, Illustrated from Western and Central Europe. Catena,  7,  135—152.

            My work on periglacial pediments, or planes of lateral corrasion produced by periglacial rivers, began with a study of near-level erosion surfaces beneath the floodplains of English valleys. The study has been extended to flights of river terraces, both in England and on the European mainland, where similar pediment forms are found to exist beneath cold stage river gravels. A complex of relationships is inferred among the climate, hydrology, vegetation, sediment supply and river behaviour which prevailed at the times when the cold stage gravels were transported. In each case the morphogenetic regime functioned in such a way as to produce a distinctive morphology. In the light of these findings and other recent data, a new model of fluvioperiglacial landscape evolution is offered. The new model revises Peltier’s periglacial cycle in two important respects; much greater emphasis is placed on lateral planation at valley floor level than on cryoplanation at higher levels, and the idea of alternating morphogenetic systems is greatly extended. This paper was influential in the re-interpretation of river valleys in a number of other geographical studies.

 

1983    Morphology and Hydrology on the Nene Floodplain in Northamptonshire. Brighton Polytechnic Geography Magazine, 10.

            A summary of the results of my observation and measurement of several river floods in the Nene valley in the 1970s. The main finding was that the complex patterns of flow observed in flood waters are repeated in successive floods. Floods appear to be chaotic because a large behavioural discontinuity exists between within-channel hydrology and flood hydrology. Nevertheless, order can be detected on both sides of the discontinuity. I identify different activity stages, and apply catastrophe theory (I think for the first time to rivers) in order to illustrate how activity stages may be by-passed. Results from this research suggested ways of averting serious flooding in Northampton and other locations downstream, by allowing controlled, small-scale flooding in the largely rural headwater valleys west of Northampton, but my advice to the water authority went unheeded.

 

 

OTHER ARTICLES

Reviews & forewords

1987 Geomorphology: Pure and Applied by M. Hart. Review in Progress in Physical Geography 11, 309-11.

1996 Foreword to Crete Reclaimed: a feminist exploration of bronze age Crete, by Susan Evasdaughter, published by Heart of Albion Press.

1998 Lost Gods of Albion by Paul Newman. Review in 3^rd Stone 31, 46-47.

1998 The Landscape of Britain by Michael Reed. Review in The Ley Hunter Journal 130, 42-3.

1998 The Salisbury Hoard by Ian Stead. Review in 3^rd Stone 33, 41.

1999 The Atlantic Celts by Simon James. Review in 3^rd Stone 35, 46-47.

2012 Introduction to As I am now, so you must be: Monumental

Inscriptions at St Peter’s, East Blatchington, published by Blatchington Press for Seaford Monumental Inscriptions Group.

2014 Introduction to Testimony of Regard: Monumental Inscriptions at St Leonard’s, Seaford, published by Blatchington Press for Seaford Monumental Inscriptions Group.

 

 

EDITORIAL WORK

1983 Classic Landforms of Snowdonia. Ken Addison. Geographical

Association (2^nd ed 1997).

1984 Classic Landforms of the Weald. D. A. Robinson & R. B. G.

Williams.

1989 Classic Landforms of the Northern Dales. E. Pounder.

1996 Classic Landforms of the Sussex Coast. R. Castleden (2^nd ed) 

1996 Classic Landforms of the North Devon Coast. P. Keene.

1996 Classic Landforms of the Lake District. J. Boardman.

1997 Classic Landforms of the East Dorset Coast. A. Goudie & D.

Brunsden.

1997 Classic Landforms of the West Dorset Coast. A. Goudie & D.

Brunsden.

1997 Classic Landforms of the South Devon Coast. D. Mottershead.

1998 Classic Landforms of the Gower Coast. E. M. Bridges.

1998 Classic Landforms of the North Norfolk Coast. E. M. Bridges.

1999 Classic Landforms of the Dark Peak. R. Dalton, H. Fox, P. Jones.

1999 Classic Landforms of the White Peak. R. Dalton, H. Fox, P. Jones.

2000 Classic Landforms of Morecambe Bay. S. J. Gale.

2012 As I am now, so you must be: Monumental Inscriptions at St Peter’s, East Blatchington. Blatchington Press for Seaford Monumental Inscriptions Group.

2014 Testimony of Regard: Monumental Inscriptions at St Leonard’s,

Seaford. Blatchington Press for Seaford Monumental Inscriptions Group.

2014 Seaford and Eastbourne in the Great War. Kevin Gordon. Pen & Sword.