Michael Green was born in St Ives, Huntingdonshire, in 1931. His father was a dentist, a WW1 flying ace and a Colonel in the
Northamptonshire Regiment, who died in action with the BEF at Ypres in 1940. Michael was brought up by his mother, going to
King’s College Choir School, Felsted, before training as an architect and starting his excavations in Godmanchester in 1951.
He joined the Ministry of Works in the early 1950s and was made a Senior Investigator of Historic Buildings at the Department
of the Environment, before later becoming an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings. He undertook rescue excavations
at Whitehall Palace between 1960-62 for the Ministry of Works and London Museum, and helped in the redesign of the Jewel Tower
on College Green opposite the Houses of Parliament. In 1990 he was a founding member and President of the Centre for Crop
Circle Studies which sought a more systematic approach to understanding these phenomena, and he published many articles in
the cerealogist. He was a frequent contributor to various magazines and journals, including the Illustrated London News, The
Archaeological News Letter, and the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, a society of which he was elected President
for two successive terms 1980-85. He is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London. In 2008 he published a definitive history of Clapham, where he has lived for some 30 years;
Tim Malim graduated from the Institute of Archaeology, London in 1980 and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Member
of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, as well as Chair of the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers.
He has conducted research in Chile, Peru, Sri Lanka and continental Europe, as well as the UK where his present role is Technical
Director at SLR Consulting in Shrewsbury. In the 1980s and 1990s Tim was based in Cambridge, first with The Fenland Survey,
and later he founded and then directed the Archaeological Field Unit of Cambridgeshire County Council, investigating and publishing
many important sites including a synthesis volume on Stonea and the Roman Fens in 2005.