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Digging deep to reveal the human cost of war

Novelist and pioneering archaeologist Tony Pollard reveals the secrets of the battlefields to Rebecca McQuillan

It would be easy, from piecing together the circumstantial evidence, to get the wrong impression of Dr Tony Pollard. In his office at Glasgow University's archaeology department, a deep interest in all things war-related is obvious.