Mark Horton
Mark is Professor in Archaeology at the University of Bristol.
He has a particular interest in maritime history and archaeology, and runs one of the few postgraduate programmes devoted to this.
Mark spends his spare time sailing
He has wide ranging archaeological interest of historical periods in both Britain and overseas and has conducted excavations in East Africa, Egypt, Madagascar, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, the Caribbean, North America as well as sites in the British Isles. He is currently writing a book on his twenty years of excavations in Zanzibar.
Mark has presented and contributed to numerous TV archaeology programmes, from the BBC Two series Time Flyers and the BBC Scotland documentary on the Darien Disaster which was awarded the Archaeological Programme of the Year in 2004. He was also involved in the early days of Time Team on Channel 4 and has contributed to many archaeology programmes on the Discovery and History Channel. He is also a regular presenter on BBC One Inside Out.
A keen sailor, Mark spends his spare time sailing his historic 26ft Maurice Griffiths designed yacht or dinghy sailing in Gloucestershire. He also has a rotting dhow in Lamu, Kenya.
