A woodland fruits yoghurt and a slice of toast with blueberry jam followed by an espresso coffee and Rick was ready to face Sunday, but not quantum physics. Struggling to understand the subject and sick of feeling like an intellectual dwarf, out of his depth, tired him. In this frame of mind, he set off to the periodicals room where he flicked through one of the 2016 copies of the Antiquaries Journal. He found an article he remembered noting for future reference.
When he had first come across the paper, several months before, he had no compelling reason to read it. Now his situation had changed. Convinced the lack of finds at Little Carlton dating from the late ninth century was due to the annihilation of the settlement by Vikings, Rick determined to research the period. Hence, he flicked
