LINDSAY ALLASON-JONES runs the Museum of Antiquities at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her work includes teaching archaeology undergraduates as well as postgraduates in the University's Museum Studies course. She is also Honorary Keeper of the Clayton Collection, as well as a Trustee of the Senhouse Roman Museum at Maryport and Corbridge Excavation Committee.

Her research is largely based on small finds, both Roman and Nubian, together with her interest in the role of Roman women about which she has written extensively. Her recent research interests have been concentrated on jet and shale artefacts from Roman sites in Britain and the Roman objects found during the excavation of Meriotic sites in the Sudan.

Lindsay is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and of the Museums Association, and a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.

Her publications include:
Catalogue of Small Finds from South Shields Roman Fort, (with R.F. Miket), 1984
Coventina's Well: a Shrine on Hadrian's Wall (with B. McKay), 1985
Excavations at Roman Corbridge:The Hoard (with B. Mckay), 1988
Ear-rings in Roman Britain, 1989
Women in Roman Britain, 1989
Roman Jet in the Yorkshire Museum, 1996

BILL GRIFFITHS is an Archaeology Projects Officer for the Tyne and Wear Museums. He specialised in the Roman Military at the University of Essex, which directed him towards Hadrian's Wall. He worked in Yorkshire for three years, before moving to work on the Wall. His time has been divided between Wallsend, South Shields and Chesters. He was involved in overseeing the re-development of Segundum, (as Wallsend was known to the Romans) which re-opened to the public in the summer of 2000. He is also the editor of the Arbeia Journal.

ROBIN BIRLEY is an ex Royal Marine, ex teacher and archaeologist who has spent most of his life on Hadrian's Wall. It still holds a total fascination for him, with excavations continuing to take place. Vindolanda has become very much a family affair, in more ways than one. His father, Professor Eric Birley, founded the Vindolanda Trust in the 1930s, and the Chesterholm Museum at Vindolanda was once his family home. Robin left teaching to run the Trust, and his wife and his son - who is also an archaeologist - are involved with him in the work at Vindolanda.

Robin is a prolific writer. His books include Garrison Life on the Roman Frontier, Hadrian's Wall - A Personal Guide and The Best of Hadrian's Wall.

JIM CROW (also known as Dr James Crow) is a lecturer in Roman archaeology at Newcastle University. Between 1982 and 1989 he directed major excavations along Hadrian's Wall for English Heritage and the National Trust. Recently, he has been leading a project looking at the Roman fort at High Rochester, as well as field work in north-west Turkey.

He is author of The English Heritage Book of Housesteads, Batsford, 1995.

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