Roll on the diploma in two weeks...!
Just passed Strathclyde's PGCert in Genealogical Studies!
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Chris Paton
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Thanks Alison, and everyone else. There's a nice cheesy photo of all of the students on my course in the news section of one of this month's gen mags with a bit of blurb about us all passing!
Roll on the diploma in two weeks...!
Roll on the diploma in two weeks...!
Tha an lasair nad anam aig meadhan do bhith
Nas làidir 's nas motha na riaghaltas no rìgh.
Nas làidir 's nas motha na riaghaltas no rìgh.
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Pandabean
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Congratulations Chris.
I am actually thinking of becoming a student again. Well part-time that is. I am currently considering either doing a certificate or diploma in Archaeology through distance learning. I have no idea where to go though, my e-mails have not been replied to yet
. May have to make some phone calls. 
I am actually thinking of becoming a student again. Well part-time that is. I am currently considering either doing a certificate or diploma in Archaeology through distance learning. I have no idea where to go though, my e-mails have not been replied to yet
. May have to make some phone calls. Andy
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[b]Greenlees & Fairnie[/b] (Musselburgh area)
[b]Johnston, Whitson, Whitecross, Runciman [/b] (Haddingtonshire)
[b]Rutherford [/b](Dumbartonshire, Airth & Larbert)
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[b]McDonald[/b]
[b]Greenlees & Fairnie[/b] (Musselburgh area)
[b]Johnston, Whitson, Whitecross, Runciman [/b] (Haddingtonshire)
[b]Rutherford [/b](Dumbartonshire, Airth & Larbert)
[b]Ross, Stevenson & Robb[/b](Falkirk)[/size]
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Chris Paton
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Hi Andy,
When I was at the BBC I made a heck of a lot programmes involving archaeology. As well as working on a Meet the Ancestors documentary special about the role of malaria in the fall of the Roman Empire, which was centred around excavations in Lugnano and Olbia in Sardinia, I also created a series called Time Flyers about aerial archaeology, working as an assistant producer on about six episodes, and producing and directing another three. I actually commissioned quite a few excavations, including one at Castle Menzies in Perthshire and another on Dun Eistean, off the northern tip of Lewis, where the Morrison clan once had a fort in the 16th C. I have to say, they were the best experiences ever! I have yet to find an excavation where the craic wasn't brilliant and the story absolutely fascinating - so in many ways I really envy you going for a course in it!
I'll give you a cautionary tale around artefacts though...! Don't let the media near them! lol When we were in Olbia, we were filming a rescue dig at the old port, long silted up, which was about to be turned into a motorway. The dig team were really desperate to get through the site quickly, and we were stunned to find bits of Roman amphora and mosaic lying all over the place in bits, cast aside as rubbish - undreamed of here! The team were trying to concentrate on getting information on six Roman galleys that had been found preserved in the ground. Although they weren't so interested in the artefacts, they did make one amazing find, a small Roman glass phial, which had been found in bits. It had been painstakingly reconstructed, and so my producer wanted to film a sequence with it in a tent, with Julian Richards interviewing one of the dig team. It was a windy day, and I said to the producer that I didn't think it was a good idea, the tent was very flimsy and the wind was really picking up, but he went ahead. Of course, he asked the dig team member to put the phial down on a small table inside the tent, in order that Julian could pick it up. No sooner had it been set on the table, than a gust of wind blew the table over, and the phial fell to the ground and smashed into as many pieces as it had originally been found in. My producer was never so mortified in his life! lol
Anyway, best of luck, whether you go for the cert or the diploma - and please let me come along to any local digs if you have any!! lol
Chris
When I was at the BBC I made a heck of a lot programmes involving archaeology. As well as working on a Meet the Ancestors documentary special about the role of malaria in the fall of the Roman Empire, which was centred around excavations in Lugnano and Olbia in Sardinia, I also created a series called Time Flyers about aerial archaeology, working as an assistant producer on about six episodes, and producing and directing another three. I actually commissioned quite a few excavations, including one at Castle Menzies in Perthshire and another on Dun Eistean, off the northern tip of Lewis, where the Morrison clan once had a fort in the 16th C. I have to say, they were the best experiences ever! I have yet to find an excavation where the craic wasn't brilliant and the story absolutely fascinating - so in many ways I really envy you going for a course in it!
I'll give you a cautionary tale around artefacts though...! Don't let the media near them! lol
When we were in Olbia, we were filming a rescue dig at the old port, long silted up, which was about to be turned into a motorway. The dig team were really desperate to get through the site quickly, and we were stunned to find bits of Roman amphora and mosaic lying all over the place in bits, cast aside as rubbish - undreamed of here! The team were trying to concentrate on getting information on six Roman galleys that had been found preserved in the ground. Although they weren't so interested in the artefacts, they did make one amazing find, a small Roman glass phial, which had been found in bits. It had been painstakingly reconstructed, and so my producer wanted to film a sequence with it in a tent, with Julian Richards interviewing one of the dig team. It was a windy day, and I said to the producer that I didn't think it was a good idea, the tent was very flimsy and the wind was really picking up, but he went ahead. Of course, he asked the dig team member to put the phial down on a small table inside the tent, in order that Julian could pick it up. No sooner had it been set on the table, than a gust of wind blew the table over, and the phial fell to the ground and smashed into as many pieces as it had originally been found in. My producer was never so mortified in his life! lol Anyway, best of luck, whether you go for the cert or the diploma - and please let me come along to any local digs if you have any!! lol
Chris
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Tha an lasair nad anam aig meadhan do bhith
Nas làidir 's nas motha na riaghaltas no rìgh.
Nas làidir 's nas motha na riaghaltas no rìgh.
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Currie
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Hello Chris,
Thanks for that. Anyone who contributes towards that sort of programming should be congratulated. It’s a bit of a change from the drivel we’re usually subjected to, especially from you know where, wherever that may be.
I'll bet the dropped phial didn’t break along the original break lines.
All the best,
Alan
Thanks for that. Anyone who contributes towards that sort of programming should be congratulated. It’s a bit of a change from the drivel we’re usually subjected to, especially from you know where, wherever that may be.
I'll bet the dropped phial didn’t break along the original break lines.
All the best,
Alan