Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds

Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the contributors to this volume, both
for their work and for their promptness in producing
reports: David Buckley, Elizabeth Fowler, Dr Patricia
Galloway, Stephen Greep, Mark Hassall, Martin
Henig, Hilary Major, Dr Graham Webster, and Dr John
Peter Wild. Other valuable help has been provided by
Dr Rosemary Luff, Donald Bailey, Michael Eddy, and
Dr David Birkett. Thanks are particularly due to
Martyn Owen, Robin Sanderson, and E A Jobbins of
the Institute of Geological Sciences, London, for their
identifications of the minerals and stones used for
various objects. Thanks are also due to many
members, past and present, of the Trust's staff: Carl
Crossan, Nicholas Smith, and Howard Brooks (site
directors); Patrick Ottaway, Rosemarie Johnson,
Pauline Meek, Victoria Grainger, Karen Butler, Dave
Mann and Joy Hind (finds assistants); Alison
Colchester (photographer); Philip Kenrick and Robin
Symonds (pottery analysts); Eleanor Clark and Lynda
Newstead, who retained their patience and good
humour during the typing of a text consisting mainly
of numbers; and the illustrators Alyson Drysdale,
Lynda Hendry, and Suzanne Debski, and in particular
Bob Moyes and Terry Cook for their excellent work.
Thanks, too, should go to the site supervisors and
diggers (too numerous to mention, or even
remember) who excavated the finds. I would also like
to thank past and present members of the Colchester
and Essex Museum staff for their help: especially
David T-D Clarke for the use of the Museum library,
for making available objects from his collection for
study, and for providing assistance, both practical and
financial, with conservation and storage; and the
conservators themselves, Peter Sweeny and Jean
Whiffing, for their greatly valued work on the small
finds. The whole, or parts, of the text has been read by
Roger Goodburn, Justine Bayley, Sarnia Butcher,
David T-D Clarke, Professor S S Frere, Professor John
Wilkes, Donald Bailey, Professor CFCHawkes,
Arthur MacGregor, Jenny Mann, DrW H Manning,
DrGrace Simpson, Professor JMCToynbee,
DrGraham Webster, and DrJohn Peter Wild, to
whom I am indebted for their informative comments
and criticisms. Finally, I would like to acknowledge my
debt to Philip Crummy, the director of the Colchester
Archaeological Trust, who was the principal site
director for the excavations covered by this report,
and who gave me constant and invaluable help and
encouragement throughout its preparation.