CONTRIBUTORS

Martin Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is currently directing the Experimental Earthwork Project, and a programme of intertidal wetland archaeology in the Severn Estuary. He is author (with Dr M. J.C. Walker) of Late Quaternary Environmental Change (1992) and editor (with Dr J. Boardman) of Past and Present Soil Erosion (1992).

Daphne Nash Briggs was an Assistant Keeper in the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and part-time University Lecturer in Roman, then Greek numismatics at Oxford University, from 1976[-]85. Her publications include (as Daphne Nash) Coinage in the Celtic World (1987).

Olivier Biichsenschiitz is Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scienti-fique, Archeologies d’Orient et d’Occident, in Paris, and is Associate Professor at the University of Paris. He has published Structures d’habitats et fortifications de Page du Per en France Septentrionale (1984); Architectures des ages des metaux (1988); he is co-author (with Fran5oise Audouze) of Towns, villages and countryside of Celtic Europe (1989), and has published reports on his excavations at Levroux.

Barry C. Burnham is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. His publications include a joint-authored volume on The ‘Small Towns’ of Roman Britain (1990), and an edited work on Conquest, Co-existence and Change: Recent Work in Roman Wales (1991).

Sara Champion is Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Her publications include A Dictionary of Terms and Techniques in Archaeology (1980) and numerous articles on coral, enamel, craft production and its relationship to social organization in iron age Europe.

Timothy Champion is Reader in Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. His publications include Prehistoric Europe (1984) and Centre and Periphery (1989).

Thomas Charles-Edwards is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford, 1993)

John Collis is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the Iron Age in Europe, and his books include The European Iron Age (1984), and Oppida, earliest towns north of the Alps (1984). His main field project is investigating the changes in settlement pattern and social and economic organization in central France.

Jeffrey L. Davies is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His publications include Conquest, Co-existence and Change (1991); Excavations at Segontium (Caernarfon) Roman Ford, 1975-9 (1993); and Cardiganshire County History Vol. I: From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans.

Sioned Davies is a lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University of Wales College of Cardiff. Her works include The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (1993) and a volume in Welsh on the art of the medieval story-teller (in press). She has published many articles on the Mabinogion, especially on issues relating to orality and literacy.

D. Ellis Evans is Jesus Professor of Celtic and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Gaulish Personal Names, A Study of some Continental Celtic Formations (1967), and numerous articles on Continental Celtic and early Insular Celtic. He co-edited the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, and is now Chief Editor of Studio Celtica.

Otto-Herman Frey is Professor of Pre - and Protohistory at the University of Marburg/Lahn. His works include several papers on the pre-Roman Iron Age, especially in central and southern Europe, and he was co-editor of the Catalogue of the Venice Exhibition, The Celts.

Alex Gibson is Projects Manager with the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. He is author of Neolithic and Bronze Age Pottery, and co-author of Prehistoric Pottery for the Archaeologist.

Miranda J. Green is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Gwent College of Higher Education (a University of Wales Associate College), and she also lectures in Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her publications include The Gods of the Celts (1986); Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art (1989); Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend (1992); Animals in Celtic Life and Myth (1992); and Celtic Myths (1993). A new book on Celtic goddesses is in press.

Elizabeth Jerem is a researcher at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and former Rhys Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She is a member of the Celtic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and editor in chief of the Series Archaeolingua. She is the author of numerous works on the Iron Age in eastern Europe, in many languages. An important new monograph entitled Iron Age Settlement of Sopron-Krautacker: archaeological and environmental investigations (Archaeolingua Main Series) is in press.

Martyn Jope is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Queen s University, Belfast, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has long worked on Celtic problems, collaborating closely in earlier years (1942[-]57) with Paul Jacobsthal in Oxford. Early Celtic Art in the British Isles is in press.

Majolie Lenerz-de Wilde is Professor in the Department of Prehistory at the University of Munster, Westfalia. She is a specialist in later Spanish prehistory.

Wynne Lloyd, formerly a radio and subsequently a television producer with BBC Wales, is a television columnist, music reviewer and commentator on the Welsh

Glenys Lloyd-Morgan was formerly Archaeological Assistant at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. She currently works as a freelance lecturer and small finds specialist in Lancashire. Her publications include Description of the Collections in the Rijksmuseum G. M. Kam at Nijmegen IX: the mirrors (1981)

Proinsias Mac Cana is Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies, The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He has published widely on the subject of Irish mythology, and his works include Celtic Mythology (1970, 1983).

Euan W MacKie is Senior Curator in Archaeology and Anthropology at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. His main research interests are in the North British Iron Age and the late Neolithic period in Britain. His publications include Dun Mor Vaul, an Iron Age broch on Tiree (University of Glasgow 1974); and Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain (Elek, 1977).

Sean McGrail was Chief Archaeologist at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (1976-86), and Professor of Maritime Archaeology, University of Oxford (1986-93). He is now Visiting Professor in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton. His publications include Logboats of England and Wales (1978); Rafts, Boats and Ships (1981), Ancient Boats in North-West Europe (1987); and Medieval Boat and Ship Timbers from Dublin (1993).

W. H. Manning is Professor of Archaeology in the University of Cardiff, and is a specialist on later prehistoric and Roman Britain. One of his major interests is the early Roman army and, in particular, the legionary fortress at Usk: seven volumes of his excavation report on Usk have already been published. His other main

Specialism is early ironworking: publications on this subject include the Catalogue of the Romano-British iron tools, fittings and weapons in the British Museum.

Ruth Megaw was trained as am American historian and has a longstanding interest in cultural history. She is a former member of the UK Diplomatic Service, and has taught at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney. She is a former head of American Studies at the Nene College, Northampton. Currently, she is a part-time Lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, sharing with her husband, Vincent Megaw, topics in early Celtic art and archaeology and contemporary Aboriginal art. She is working with him on the preparation of a Supplement to Paul Jacobsthal’s seminal Early Celtic Art, to be published by Clarendon Press.

Vincent Megaw, formerly Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester, has taught European archaeology and prehistoric art both there and previously at the University of Sydney. In his present position at Flinders University, he teaches Visual Arts and Archaeology. His central concern with Celtic art was established first as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh which recently awarded him a D. Litt. for his contributions to the field. He has published widely, most recently together with Ruth Megaw, and their joint works include Celtic Art from its beginnings to the Book of Kells (1989) and The Basse-Hutz (1927) Find: masterpieces of Celtic art (1990).

Peter Northover is leader of the Materials Science-Based Archaeology Research Group in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He has made a particular study of bronze age and iron age gold and bronze, and has published widely on these subjects.

Stuart Piggott is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published numerous books and articles on aspects of prehistory, including The Earliest Wheeled Transport (1983).

Glanville Price is a Research Professor in the Department of European Languages, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he was formerly Professor of French. From 1979-90 he was Ghairman of the Gommittee of the Modern Humanities Research Association. His publications include The Present Position of Minority Languages in Western Europe: a selective bibliography (1969); The French Language, Present and Past (1971); The Languages of Britain (1984); A Comprehensive French Grammar (1986); and (as editor) A Comprehensive French Grammar (1988); and (as editor) The Celtic Connection (1992).

Barry Raftery is Associate Professor of Archaeology at University Gollege, Dublin. He is a Member both of the Royal Irish Academy and of the German Archaeological Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His principal publications include A Catalogue of Irish Iron Age Antiquities (1983); Le Tene in Ireland (1984) and Pagan Celtic Ireland (1994).

Ian Ralston is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and the Director of the Centre for Field Archaeology at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Les enceintes fortifi[ae]ees du Limousin (1992) and of a range of papers on the archaeology of France and Scotland. He was co-editor of Archaeological Resource Management in the UK; an introduction (1993) for the Institute of Field Archaeologists.

David Rankin is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His publications include Plato and the Individual (1964); Petronius the Artists (1971); Archilochus of Paros (1978); Sophists, Socratics and Cynics (1983); Antisthenes Sokratikos (1986); and Celts and the Classical World (1987).

Mark Redknap gained his Ph. D. from the University of London in 1987, and is currently Medievalist of the Department of Archaeology and Numismatics at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. He has published articles on medieval artefacts, underwater archaeology, and the archaeology of the medieval period. Publications include The Cattewater wreck; the investigation of an armed merchantman of the early 16th century (1984); Eifelkeramik and Mayen Ware; the Roman and medieval pottery industries of the Eifel (1987); and The Christian Celts: treasures of late Celtic Wales (1991).

Peter J. Reynolds has been Director of the Butser Ancient Farm Project since its inception in 1972 to the present. He was Visiting Professor in the Department of Medieval History and Palaeography at the University of Barcelona (1993[-]4); and is a former Editor of the Archaeological Journal. He has published widely on prehistoric agriculture and experiment in archaeology, and is the author of Iron Age Farm (1979) and Ancient Farming (1987).

J. N.G. Ritchie is on the staff of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, and Deputy Curator of the National Monuments Record of Scotland. His publications include joint authorship (with W. F. Ritchie) of the Shire book Celtic Warriors (1985).

W. F. Ritchie was formerly Principal Teacher of Classics and then Deputy Rector of Arbroath High School. He is a member of the Scottish Classics Group which produces the Latin Reading Course, Ecce Romani. He is co-author of Celtic Warriors.

Anne Ross was formerly a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University, and Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton. Her many publications include Pagan Celtic Britain (1967, reprinted 1992); she is actively pursuing research into aspects of Celtic religion.

Gerald A. Wait is Senior Archaeologist with Gifford and Partners, Chester. His doctoral research at Oxford culminated in Ritual and Religion in Iron Age Britain (1985). He has maintained his research interests in Celtic religion and Iron Age and Roman Britain, whilst working as a Consulting Archaeologist.

Graham Webster was a Reader and Senior Tutor in Archaeology in the Extra-Mural Department of the University of Birmingham. He is Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Society and of the Council for British Archaeology. His seventeen books include The Roman Imperial Army (1985); and The British Celts and their Gods under Rome (1986).

Jane Webster gained her Ph. D. at the University of Edinburgh. She lectures at the School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester.

Colin Wells is T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at Trinity University. San Antonio. He is the author of The German Policy of Augustus (1972) and The Roman Empire (2nd edn 1992). He has been excavating at Carthage since 1976, and has published many articles on Roman Gaul, Germany and Africa.

Peter S. Wells is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His recent publications include Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age; excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987[-]1991 (1993).