Mark Horton (archaeologist)

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

He is part of a project to establish the Cultural Heritage Institute in the former Great Western Railway carriage works at Swindon, offering research and masters training from 2020.

[4][5] He also has an 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.

He was closely involved in the inception of the long-running Channel 4 television series Time Team and the third episode was filmed in his home town of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, in 1994.

[10] Having invited Time Team to investigate the bones found by cavers in a cave in the village of Alveston, Gloucestershire, he appeared in the programme on this site shown in 2001.

Horton is a keen sailor and enjoys dinghy-sailing on the River Severn and restoring his historic 26-foot (7.9 m) yacht Mignonette, a Lone Gull design of Maurice Griffiths built in 1946–47.