Mick Aston's thoughts

Mick Aston gives his thoughts on the Castleford shoot:

'This programme was a good one to do. With a Roman fort you have an awful lot of finds and stratigraphy so you have to ask yourself how far can you get in three days. Having said that, we had a lot of previous work to draw on. Finding those Victorian cellars allowed us to drop to a level that would have taken weeks of excavation to achieve. The gap in occupation (from the Roman period until the Victorians) was an interesting factor. It appears that nobody lived here after the Roman period and I find that a little bit hard to follow. The thing is medieval records from that area are scarce and that certainly added to the intrigue.'

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