Biographical note

Barry Cunliffe was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. He has worked on many of the iconic British excavations including Fishbourne Roman Palace, Danebury Hillfort and Hengistbury Head. He is an authority on the Iron Age and the Celts, and the author of many scholarly and popular publications including The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe, Britain Begins, and The Celts, A Very Short Introduction. Dr Heather Sebire is the Senior Historic Property Curator at English Heritage for the West of England. She was the curator for Archaeology at Guernsey Museum from 1996 to 2003 and then States Archaeologist in Guernsey from 2003 until 2007. She has published many articles and papers on Channel Islands archaeology.