About the Author

Keith Parfitt is a field archaeologist working in Kent for more than forty years. He is a senior manager with the Canterbury Archaeological Trust and also directs the Dover Archaeological Group, an active local society. He has previously collaborated with the British Museum on other Kent discoveries, including the Iron Age warrior from Mill Hill, Deal and Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery. He first met Stuart Needham as a student at University College, Cardiff in the mid-1970s.