Paul Frodsham at Long Meg, August 2023. Paul is an archaeologist with a particular interest in the Neolithic of northern England. He has intimate knowledge of Long Meg and all of her Daughters, having been very fond of them for decades. He has led surveys and excavations here, as well as numerous public events, over recent years.

Paul Frodsham studied archaeology, anthropology and geography at the University of Durham, gaduating in 1985. He worked as an archaeologist in Cumbria, London and Berkshire before being appointed as the Northumberland National Park Authority's first archaeologist in 1992.

It began life as a North Pennines AONB project, designed and managed by Paul Frodsham and largely funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), that ran from 2010 until 2015 when Altogether Archaeology (AA) was reformed as an independent community group.

Paul Frodsham, a Durham University graduate and Honorary Fellow, has worked as a professional archaeologist in northern England for 35 years, including a decade with the North Pennines AONB Partnership during which he set up the Altogether Archaeology project. He is now the group’s Archaeology Advisor.

2022年12月22日 · Archaeologist Paul Frodsham has been tracing the cultural links between midwinter rituals at Stonehenge (above) and ‘Merry Old Santa Claus’, as depicted here by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly in 1881 (below).

Through his work as an archaeologist for the Northumberland Park Authority, Paul Frodsham is better placed than most to appreciate the stunning landscape of Northumberland and the...

Testimonials > Paul Frodsham “I first visited Long Meg as an undergraduate student in the mid 1980s, and have been under her spell ever since. On my first visit, I recall asking myself how on earth could we study such a place: how would we know …