Brief Notes on the Contributors

BRIEF NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Tim Allen: an archaeologist working for the Canterbury Archaeological Trust who also acts as instructor on KAS training excavations. He teaches Archaeology and History for the Unit of Regional Learning at UKC where he is researching settlement patterns on the coastal levels of north Kent. Paul Ashbee, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A., F.R.S.A.I.: grew up between the wars in Bearsted. After war service, studied at University of London Institute of Archaeology with V. G. Childe and Mortimer Wheeler. Excavated prehistoric sites, mostly long and round barrows, for the then Ministry of Works, plus a long-term settlement excavation on the Isles of Scilly. Co-Director of 1964-72 work at Sutton Hoo, with R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford. One-time Meetings Secretary and Council Member of the Prehistoric Society. Founder Member of the British Association Committee for Archaeological Field Experiment (Experimental Earthworks). One-time Secretary of the Neolithic and Bronze Age Committee of CBA. Member of the RCHME, 1975-85. President of Cornwall Archaeological Society, 1976-80. First Archaeologist on staff of new University of East Anglia, 1968-83. Numerous papers, articles and reviews in archaeological literature, 1950 to present. Major published works: The Bronze Age Round Barrows in Britain, 1960; The Earthen Long Barrow, 1970 (2nd edn 1984); Ancient Scilly, 1974; Contribution to Sutton Hoo Vol.!, 1976; The Ancient British, 1978; Wilsford Shaft, 1989; Halangy Down, Isles of Scilly, 2000. Papers in Archaeologia Cantiana on the Medway's megalithic long barrows based upon detailed war-time fieldwork supplemented by visits and observations down the years. Shirley Burgoyne Black, B.A., PH.D.: studied French and German at London University, and began her career as a technical translator. An attraction to History (with a PH.D. at the University of Kent) came later. Has written several books and booklets on aspects of Kentish history including biographies of William Perfect and Marianne Farningham. Her major work, a life of Edward Hasted, is published this year. 445 CONTRIBUTORS Emma Boast: graduated from the University of York in 1996 with B.A. HONS in Archaeology. Worked with Dave Perkins before moving back to York in I 997 to join busy northern archaeological consultancy, excavating urban and rural sites in York and North Yorkshire, latterly as site supervisor. Took busman's holidays to supervise KAS Abbey Farm training excavations, 1997-99. Returned to join the Trust for Thanet Archaeology as Deputy Director in 1999. Member of KAS fieldwork committee. Michael G. Brennan, M.A., D.PHIL.: Senior Lecturer at the School of English, University of Leeds. Edited The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant 1647-1656 (London, 1999), and The Travel Diary (1611-1612) of an English Catholic, Sir Charles Somerset (Leeds, 1993). Currently editing, with Judith Maltby and Jas' Elsner, The Travel Diary of John Bargrave, 1645-1646 for the Church of England Record Society, and a book on Civil War travellers for the Hakluyt Society. James Clinch, M.A.(CANTAB): a pupil at Maidstone Grammar School from 1936-46 and then followed a career as an industrial chemist and manager in II ford, A vonmouth and Maidstone. Returned to his old school in I 974 to teach (mostly Chemistry) until retirement in I 991. Hon. Secretary of the Old Maidstonian Society. Founder-conductor of the City of Rochester Symphony Orchestra, 1969-94. Author of Gaudeamus - an account of music at Maidstone Grammar School ( 1997). Dawn Crouch, PH.D.: born Chilham, awarded external B.A. HONS (History) University of London in I 956. Taught history and music at Queenborough, Ramsgate, Canterbury and Broadstairs. Moved to Westgate in 1970 and became churchwarden, St Saviour's; exciting archival finds in Churchwarden's Box developed interest in Westgate's history. Retired 1995 and in 1999 awarded PH.D. at UKC for thesis based on Westgate 1865-1940 and its place in the history of exclusive seaside resorts. Recently researched Westgate war dead and continuing research on the post-war history of the resort. David Holman: a full-time civil servant. An amateur archaeologist with the Dover Archaeological Group since 1984 and member of British Numismatic Society since 1990. Has worked on many sites in Kent, mainly for DAG, and also assisted professional units. Interested in coins for many years and has been actively recording metal detector finds of Iron Age (and Saxon and Norman) coins in Kent since 199 l. 446 CONTRIBUTORS Tessa Leeds, B.A. HONS: studied Kentish History and Archaeology as part-time mature student at UKC. Lives in Weald village where her family has resided for over 200 years; she has contributed to the village book marking the centenary of the Parish Council. A local and family historian for over 25 years she welcomes correspondence relating to the village and its inhabitants. Philip MacDougall, PH.D.: a leading naval dockyard historian, his first interest is the naval civilian facilities of north Kent. Produced numerous articles on Woolwich and Deptford dockyards, while those at Chatham and Sheerness have been the subject of separate books. Founder member of the Naval Dockyards Society. Teaches at Portsmouth College. Published titles include Royal Dockyards (1982), The Hoo Peninsula Story (I 980), The Book of Medway (1989) and Chatham Past ( 1999). Currently working on a collection of papers detailing the history of the Chatham yard, 18 I 6-1860, to be published by the Navy Records Society. Submitted detailed paper on the history of Sheerness Dockyard for publication by the KAS. Jonathan David Oates, B.A., D.A.A.: Hons History degree at Reading University, 1991; Diploma in Archive Administration at UCW, Aberystwyth, I 994. Assistant archivist at Lewisham, 1994-9 from which stems his interest in KenUsh history. Currently borough archivist at Ealing. Doctoral thesis submitted on the responses in North Eastern England to the Jacobite Rebellions (for award in July 2001). Dr F. H. Panton, CBE: after retirement from the Scientific Civil Service he chaired the Canterbury Archaeological Trust Management Committee, I 985-99, the Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust l 994- and is currently Hon. Librarian of the KAS. His researches into the finances and government of Canterbury in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gained him a PH.D. (History) from UKC in 1999 to add to his PH.D. (Chemistry), Nottingham, 1952. He is currently extending and broadening his researches on Municipal County Boroughs in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Keith Parfitt: Hons degree in British Archaeology at University College, Cardiff, 1978 when he joined Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit which was digging in his home town of Dover. Stayed with KARU until 1990, working on a variety of excavations in Kent and SB London; spent several years writing up Keston Roman villa. Joined Canterbury Archaeological Trust in 1990 and worked on new 447 CONTRIBUTORS A20 project in Dover which culminated in discovery of Bronze Age Boat in 1992; and on Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery in 1994 and Townwall Street, Dover in 1996. Running parallel with full-time career, Director of Excavations for amateur Dover Archaeological Group since 1978; published two monographs on long-running excavations at Mill Hill, Deal. Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2000. David Perkins, PH.D., M.SC., M.I.F.A.: in 1976 joined volunteers excavating a barrow at Ramsgate, being then recruited as supervisor on Thanet Archaeological Society projects. Acting as supervisor for Frank Jenkins gave two years of valuable training. Excavated many Thanet sites, from 1987 as Director of Thanet Archaeological Trust. Part-time study for B.SC. and M.SC (Archaeological Sciences) and a PH.D. in Archaeology. Full membership of I.F.A. (field practice and finds study). Rita Wood: a fieldworker in the West Riding of Yorkshire for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, a project of the British Academy. Her particular research interest is in the purpose and meaning of sculpture of this period in England generally. Bernard Worssam: with a degree in Geology from University College London pursued a career with the British Geological Survey. Geology of the country around Maidstone (1963) was an early publication. Since retirement in 1985 has studied mainly medieval building stone in South East England, many projects in collaboration with archaeologist Tim Tatton-Brown, e.g. the paper on Kentish Rag in Archaeologia Cantiana CXII (1993). Awarded London University D.SC. in 1995. 448