The son of a crime-scene investigator, Rodney lives at Seaford and is a full-time writer. His surveys on the Cerne Giant won a British Archaeological Award in 1996. He writes about landscape, ancient hill figures, neolithic Britain, the bronze age Aegean and criminology. His interests range widely across the arts and sciences, and he wrote Winfrith, a music drama, to celebrate the Millennium at Brixworth in Northamptonshire.