My friend Colin Pendleton, who has died suddenly aged 61, was a Suffolk archaeologist specialising in the Bronze Age. After failing his 11-plus he went to secondary modern school in Mildenhall, famous as the site of the Mildenhall Treasure, a huge hoard of Roman silver ploughed up by Colin's uncle, Gordon Butcher, in the 1940s. But Colin was more interested in the mysterious world of the Bronze Age.
He began to make discoveries, picking up flint tools in fields and systematically documenting them. Then he started to record and analyse the finds of others, particularly when metal detectors became popular and widely used.
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