Professor Mick Aston BA (Birmingham), FSA, MIFA Professor of Landscape Archaeology, member of the Centre for the Historic Environment, specialises in landscape archaeology. Examples of current research interests: Post-Roman landscapes, especially towns and monastic archaeology Director of the long-term research project of Shapwick in Somerset which is analysing landscape and settlement evolution.

ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison Issue no 51, February 2000 FAVOURITE FINDS I blame the champagne Mick Aston recalls the day he stumbled on a deserted medieval village My favourite discovery took place in the summer of about 1976, when I was county archaeologist in Somerset. I was on my way back from Richard Bradley's wedding , and there were four of us in the car, the archaeologists Pete ...