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Dr Martin Smith on Mastermind
Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology, Dr Martin Smith appeared on Episode 16 of Mastermind. He came second on the night, answering 14 questions on his specialist subject Motorhead, and 13 general knowledge questions . After the two rounds he was joint first, narrowly missing out on the top spot because his closest competitor had passed on [...]
Forensics on The One Show
On 15 Feb Simon Bozeman, reporter from The One Show came to BU with his team (a camera man/producer and assistant) for an exclusive tour of the new Crime Scene Training Facility and of course to make a report using the setting. Using the news hook of the Forensic Science Service (FSS) closing, Simon [...]
‘The earliest Englishman was nothing more than a cheap fraud’
In the centenary year of the discovery of the hoax, Dr Miles Russell, Senior Lecturer in prehistoric and Roman Archaeology has spoken to the Observer about the Piltdown Man. Between 1908 and 1912 human skull fragments, an ape-like jaw and flints were found close to the Sussex village of Piltdown. The discovery was, at the [...]
Professor Tim Darvill’s lecture ‘Stonehenge and Merlin’s Magic Circles’ goes Stateside
On 7 December Professor Darvill will be presenting his lecture ‘Merlin’s Magic Circles: Stonehenge and the use of the Preseli Bluestones’ at the Penn Museum in Pennsylvania. Stonehenge’s history dates back to 3000BC when 80 pillars of Bluestone rock were transported 250km from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales, to Salisbury Plain. In his lecture [...]
