Our Bloggers – Steve Platt: Windsor Castle

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Steve Platt has been involved with Time Team for the past ten years and has been the Time Team website editor since 1999. One of his first Time Team digs was at Plympton St Maurice, Devon, in 1998 – which earned a special mention in some newspaper diary columns for Phil's discovery of some x-rated videos in an outhouse that was being demolished as part of the excavations.

Steve has worked on all the live Time Team events since the first Time Team Live in 1997, but his favourite Time Team dig was at Mine Howe, Orkney, which was screened as a Time Team Special at Christmas 2000. "This was a very special site on an island that has an extraordinary prehistoric landscape, and it was a real privilege to be a part of the excavation and to watch the monument at Mine Howe being revealed."

As well as his work for Time Team, Steve is a widely published journalist and writer. A former editor of the New Statesman and other magazines, he is the author of a number of books and other publications, ranging from a history of squatting to a study of the ten plagues of biblical Egypt. Before entering journalism his previous jobs included furniture removals for the old Greater London Council and rent collecting for a short-life housing group.