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Mark Horton (archaeologist)

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and directed the digitisation of the engineer's sketch books and letters at Bristol University library, which project was grant-aided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2003.
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Mark Horton, Shanga, the archaeology of a Muslim trading community on the coast of East Africa, British Institute in Eastern Africa (1986)
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Horton's first television appearances sprang from his academic work in East Africa. He contributed to a programme by Time Life Television
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built in 1946–47. He lives on the banks of the Severn in a sixteenth-century house associated with
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Between 2005 and 2016 Horton was one of the team of presenters on the programme
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He is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research & Enterprise at the
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to investigate the bones found by cavers in a cave in the village of
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He was a co-presenter on two series of the BBC Two production,
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He was closely involved in the inception of the long-running
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2002 – 2003. In 2004 he presented BBC Scotland's programme
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television programme on the Atlantic slave trade in 1998.
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Horton is a keen sailor and enjoys dinghy-sailing on the
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and restoring his historic 26-foot (7.9 m) yacht
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and the third episode was filmed in his home town of
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FSA
archaeologist
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Royal Agricultural University
Cirencester
University of Bristol
Sam Willis
Great Western Railway
Swindon
Zanzibar
Shanga
Kenya
Darien scheme
Panama
Cistercian
Bishop's Palace, Wells
Somerset
Alveston
Berkeley Castle
Repton
Mongolia
Anjouan
Sri Lanka
Madagascar
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Royal Agricultural University
Society of Antiquaries of London
Channel 4
Channel 4

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