Bob Clarke, born in Scarborough in 1964 is an English archaeologist and historian. This article is on the English seaside resort. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For referencing in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Citing sources. ... For other uses, see Historian (disambiguation). ...

Aviation career

Upon leaving school Clarke joined the Royal Air Force in 1981 at the height of the Cold War. He served at RAF Leeming, Lyneham, Ascension Island and St Athan during a nine year term. During that time he worked on Jet Provost, Lockheed Hercules and Panavia Tornado aircraft. From 1990 he worked across Europe as a structural engineer on Airbus A300-600 series and Boeing 747's. Clarke also spent a year at the Dutch aeromanufacturer Fokker as a production engineer on the Fokker F100 medium range airliner. From 1996 until May 2008 Clarke was located at Boscombe Down lecturing Aircraft Structures, Systems and Theory of Flight at FES Training Centre. He now works for Ascent Flight Training. RAF redirects here. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... RAF air defence bases RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England. ... RAF Lyneham is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. ... Anthem: God Save the Queen Capital Georgetown Largest city Georgetown Official languages English Government Dependency of St. ... St. ... The Hunting Percival (later BAC) Jet Provost was a jet-powered training aircraft used by the RAF from 1955 to 1993. ... The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a four-engine turboprop aircraft, is the main tactical air transport aircraft of the United States and UK military forces. ... The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine fighters, which was jointly developed by the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. ... The Airbus A300 is a short to medium range, wide-body family of aircraft manufactured by Airbus Industries between 1972 and the present. ... The Boeing 747, sometimes nicknamed the Jumbo Jet,[4][5] is a long-haul, widebody commercial airliner manufactured by Boeing in the United States. ... Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. ... The Fokker F100 is a small twin-turbofan regional airliner from the Fokker company. ... Boscombe Down is a British Ministry of Defence site in Wiltshire, England, currently operated by QinetiQ as a station for trials aircraft. ...

Literary career

After leaving the RAF he travelled around Europe with his wife Sarah, visiting cities and sites that had lain behind the 'Iron Curtain'. This formed the background to his first major book, Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War, published by Tempus in 2005. Still in print, the book is in its third impression. Following this Clarke researched the Berlin Airlift, culminating in the publication of Ten Tons for Tempelhof: The Berlin Airlift published in May 2007. In this the memories of many veterans were published for the first time along with pictures from private collections. In February 2008 The Archaeology of Airfields was published by the recently formed History Press (formally Tempus Publishing). Airfields is the first publication to bring together all periods of military aviation and discuss them utilising a framework of landscape archaeology. Clarke's future projects include The Jet Provost: A Little Plane With a Big History (2008), Airfield Architecture (2007/8) & The Bombardment of Scarborough (2009). Aside to the books Clarke has published papers in a number of academic journals on archaeological themes. Subjects range Cold War nuclear bunkers in Wiltshire, Bronze Age metalwork, Roman building techniques, earthworks near Stonehenge and Saxon executions. Forthcoming papers include the Aviation Landscape of Wiltshire. Clarke has held the position of Honorary Review Editor for the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, the Wiltshire County journal, since 2006. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Engraving of Sarah by Hans Collaert from c. ... The Soviet Union blocked Western rail and road access to West Berlin from June 24, 1948 - May 11, 1949. ... Tempus Publishing are a United Kingdom-based publishing company. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... For other uses, see Stonehenge (disambiguation). ...

Bob Clarke at the excavation of the Boscombe Bowmen

The Boscombe Bowmen is a name given by archaeologists to a group of early Bronze Age burials found at Boscombe Down near Stonehenge in Wiltshire in the United Kingdom. ...

Educational career

Clarke is a visiting tutor in archaeology at the University of Bath, he was educated in archaeology under professor Mick Aston and Julian Richards. Followed by a period at Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford where he obtained his honours degree in post-compulsory education. Clarke held the post of QinetiQ Archaeologist at Boscombe Down between 1996-2008. His research areas cover a number of periods including Prehistoric and Roman Wiltshire and British Military Architecture of the 20th Century (airfields and nuclear), an area where he is considered an authority. He is credited with the discovery of Broad Town Man, a Saxon execution burial from North Wiltshire. In British, Australian, New Zealand, and some Canadian universities, a tutor is often but not always a postgraduate student or a lecturer assigned to conduct a seminar for undergraduate students, often known as a tutorial. ... The University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, England. ... Professor Michael Aston (born 1946) has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. ... == Julian Richards is a presenter on television and radio, a writer and an archaeologist with over 30 years experience of fieldwork and publication. ... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... , QinetiQ (LSE: QQ.) (pronounced [], as in kinetic energy) is a British defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former government agency DERA when it was split up in June 2001 (with the smaller part becoming Dstl). ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period of human history prior to the advent of writing (which marks the beginning of recorded history). ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... Not to be confused with Wilshire. ... This article is about building architecture. ... For other uses, see Airport (disambiguation). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... For other uses, see Anglo-Saxon. ...

External links

• British Archaeology - Boscombe Bowmen
• Bob Clarke - home page
• Saxon Execution
• Wiltshire Heritage (Devizes Museum)