the urban prehistorian

What is bunkerology? Luke Bennett coined this term to characterise the phenomenon of those with an interest, even obsession, with exploring underground concrete military facilities. In other words, ‘urban explorers who wrote online about their exploration of abandoned Cold War bunke...

One of the most remarkable episodes in British archaeology was played out in the summer of 1937 in Clydebank, near Glasgow. For a short while, the Druid Temple, or Knappers, was the hottest ticket in town and prehistory was sexy, thanks to the charismatic Ludovic MacLellan Mann. This site, long invisible, and in the shadow of Clydebank tower blocks, is one of my favourites. <...

I grew up in a town called Larkhall in South Lanarkshire, not far from Glasgow. It would be fair to say that this is a place that has a negative reputation at least in west central Scotland, and I was very aware of this when I was growing up. However the character of the town has ...