Roman Britain

Dr. T.W. Potter was in charge of the British Museum's Romano-British collections from 1978, and was Keeper of the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities from 1995 until his death at the beginning of 2000. He was the author of more than fifteen books and around a hundred papers on many aspects of Roman archaeology, and had conducted numerous fieldwork and excavation projects in Britain, Italy and Algeria. Dr Catherine Johns has been a curator of the Romano-British collections in the British Museum since 1967. She has researched, taught and published extensively on Roman art and artefacts, especially on jewellery and silverware.