- Contributors -
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[aelees 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 cur-
rently 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 prehis-
toric 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 WE Ritchie) of
the Shire book Celtic Warriors (1985).W,E 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 pro-
duces 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 reli-
gIOn.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.XIX