The enormous value of the work of people outside formal academic structures (like universities, and to some extent, archives and local authorities), to our work - and the work of a great many historians and archaeologists - cannot be understated.
Brian and Moira Gittos are just two examples.
Victoria County History
Reading about Basil Brown made me think of my own parents. One Sunday, dad took me down town to check on a site - & spotted some stone among the industrial sludge. I thought he was mad! It turned out to be the only surviving bit of Yeovil's early Anglo-Saxon minster church... #notsuttonhoobut
