A well-known archaeologist visited Luton Sixth Form College to talk to A-level archaeology students.
Alex Langlands, best known for presenting Channel 4 series Time Team, spoke about his career and conducted a question-and-answer session.
Topics ranged from how to get started in archaeology, what careers it can lead to and different sites the first year students were interested in.
Alex said: “They were a brilliant, lovely group and it was good chatting to them. It was good fun.
“The students were really bright and asked question after question – and they were good, incisive questions.”
Alex has a BA Hons in medieval archaeology, an MA in world archeology and a PhD in Anglo-Saxon history from the University of Winchester, where he now works as a post-doctoral researcher.
He was part of the team behind BBC2 historical documentary series Tales from the Green Valley and follow-ups Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm, which investigated the farming methods of different time periods.
He then joined Channel 4 series Time Team as a presenter and specialist landscape archaeologist.
Mr Langlands said his visit to the college came about thanks to his role at the University of Winchester, where he is involved in community engagement.
He said: “My campaign is to try and get across that archeology is more than just three trenches and a geophysics plot. Archaeology is the study of our human history through the physical remains we leave.”