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 . 3rd 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? 3rd Stone 32, 6-9.
1999 Restoring Stonehenge - An Update. 3rd Stone 34, 34
1999 New views across
an old landscape: reassessing Stonehenge (1). 3rd Stone 35, 12-18.
1999 New views across
an old landscape: reassessing Stonehenge (2). 3rd 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? 3rd 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 3rd 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 3rd
Stone 33, 41.
1999 The Atlantic Celts by Simon James. Review in 3rd
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
(2nd 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 (2nd 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.
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