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 partic-
ular study of bronze age and iron age gold and bronze, and has published widely on
these subjects.Stuart Piggott is Professor Emeritl!s 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 Chairman of the Committee 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 College, 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
Time in Ireland (1984) and Pagan Celtic Ireland (1994).XVIII