Hi I’m Paul Lindley. I’m the Chancellor University of Reading and I’m an amateur archaeologist, no, nothing professionally but I absolutely love coming here to the Cookham dig. Um I’ve been privileged to be shown around today and seen some wonderful things. I’m particularly excited by the human archaeology and the skeletons and bones that have been found. I’ve just been seeing how people were buried and buried on top of each other in different periods, and just discovering how these people died, how they lived, how they cared for each other, I’ve just learnt and I’m fascinated by. I’ve also been over to the artifacts that we found. Again blown away by a little coin I just found that was from the period of Queen Cynethryth and came from Europe and like who owned that, what they bought with it with, how they earned it, and how were we today, it was found yesterday, the first people in 1300 years to have touched it and seen it. And that connects us to those people in that history and makes me fascinated about how they lived, what happened in this wonderful place. We’re very lucky at the University of Reading to have a place like this to learn our archaeology and to offer the rest of the world an insight into how people lived in the past or how we can live in the future because we learnt that.