Mike Pitts > Quotes

“because if he found the church, I could look for the grave. And if I found the grave, he’d found the church. So we kind of did it on that basis.’ Putting it like that, if she found the grave, whether or not they found the church seemed not really to matter.”
― Mike Pitts, Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King

“Surrealist world map: Dee Morris and Stephen Voyce”
― Mike Pitts, Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth

“Even if the soil is stony and very poorly protected against the heat of the Sun,” observed the Forsters”
― Mike Pitts, Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth

“Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, found ‘something admirable, indeed noble, about the people arguing over Richard III. They’re doers rather than naysayers, romantics rather than realists.’46”
― Mike Pitts, Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King

“said Philippa, ‘if you have a dream, fight for it. But more than that, instil in others your belief and your passion, and by doing that you’ll create a team.”
― Mike Pitts, Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King

“the Guardian: ‘The identification of bones found in Leicester as those of Richard III may be supported by the telling absence of any trace of a horse.’5”
― Mike Pitts, Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King