Mark Horton (archaeologist)

Mark Chatwin Horton, FSA (born 15 February 1956) is a British maritime and historical archaeologist, television presenter and writer

Horton attended Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating and receiving a doctorate. He is Professor in Archaeology at the University of Bristol. One of his former students is Sam Willis.

He has conducted excavations in Zanzibar, Egypt, the Caribbean, North America, Central America and France, as well as sites in Britain. His chief publications are on the Swahili site of Shanga, Kenya between 1980 and 1986 and more recently sites on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, notably Tumbatu, Ras Mkumbuu, Mtambwe Mkuu and Chwaka.

He also has a strong interest in maritime archaeology and is the Programme Director of the MA Maritime Archaeology and History at Bristol University.

His other excavations include the Scottish Darien scheme (1698–1700) in Panama; the Cistercian Abbey of Grosbot (Charente, France); the Bishop's Palace at Wells; a medieval farmstead at Carscliffe, Somerset; Fishmongers Cave, Alveston (South Gloucestershire) and he is currently working at Berkeley Castle (Gloucestershire). In 2008-11 he undertook survey and excavation work in the Kherlen Valley in Mongolia. Between 2011-13, he has worked with the Sealinks Project, undertaking excavations on Pemba, Zanzibar, Mafia, Anjouan, Sri Lanka and Madagascar.

He also has an abiding interest in Isambard Kingdom Brunel and directed the digitisation of the engineer's sketch books and letters at Bristol University library, which project was grant-aided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2003,

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