" This book offers an insight into the dedication and achievements of a remarkable British archaeologist: It is also a significant contribution to the history of our vibrant discipline.  Dennis's active and highly creative life in archaeology is a remarkable story of forty years of devotion, charting the determination of one man to rescue the fast disappearing remains of our past undeterred by pressure from quarry managers, unhelpful bureaucracy and bitter winters.  " (Professor Barry Cunliffe)

Northamptonshire Archaeological Society in collaboration with Dennis Jackson and his family published the autobiography of Dennis Jackson in 2010.  It follows his carrer through the 'Rescue' archaeoloogy of the 1960s, and continuing through thte 1970s and into the 1980s, often working with little assistance and covering many fo the ironstone quarries around Corby and gravel quarries along the Nene valley.

The end result is a body of work spanning most periods and site types: Neolithic and Bronze Age burials, Roman settlements and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, but Dennis will be remembered more than anything for his work on numberous Iron Age settlements, including several almost completely excavated sites and the most recent investigations at the Hunsbury hillfort, Northampton.

While this is Dennis' personal story, it also chronicales the many changes that have taken place in the world of field archaeology over a period of some 30 years.  The book also includes reviews of pit alignments, Iron Age settlement studies and a proposed chronology for Iron Age pottery assemblages in Northamptonshire.

179 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

This publication has now sold out, but second-hand copies may be available, and we hope to be able to make it available online through the Archaeology Data Service in the future.