This is the story of Cornelius Franklin Gudgeon, archaeologist, as pieced together from the notes and tape-recordings that he left behind. It tells the tale of an ordinary man from a mercantile background in the English Midlands who became a solider then dug in Mesopotamia, met and knew Agatha Christie, worked with Mortimer Wheeler, and established a successful academic Department at a northern University. The memoir reflects on some of the major...