He left school by having there are no qualifications & served in the RAF during the Second World War before training as a teacher. He became concerned around archeology & late became an academician at a University of Birmingham. For numerous years he was a archeologist at Worcester Cathedral.

In a period of the 1970s and 80s he worked to help establish Rescue and the Institute of Field Archaeologists and undertook excavation work at Wroxeter and Hen Domen.

He wrote a comprehensive alternative to field archeology, Techniques of Archaeological Excavation inside 1977 and it remains in print.