Roger Bland was President of the British Numismatic Society from 2011 to 2016. He retired from the British Museum in 2015, where he was Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory and Head of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Before that he was curator of Roman coins at the Museum.
Dr Adrian Chadwick is a Teaching Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Bristol and was a Research Associate in the Hoarding Project. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales and his main research interests focus on landscape archaeology and aspects of Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman Britain and Europe, particularly field systems and land allotment, rural settlement, the archaeology of upland areas, and of coastal communities.
Dr Eleanor Ghey is Curator of Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards at the British Museum, where she has been employed since 2007. She studied archaeology before training and working as a museum conservator until 2000. Her doctoral research was on Gallo-Roman temple sites and she has worked as a post-doctoral researcher on roundhouses in Wales and on the AHRC funded Iron Age and Roman coin hoards in Britain project (in collaboration with Leicester University). She has research interests in the Iron Age to Roman transition period and her current role involves recording coin hoards reported as Treasure under the Treasure Act 1996.
Colin Haselgrove is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. His research focuses on the British and European Iron Age, on early coinage and currencies and on the Iron Age to Roman transition in the north-west Europe.
Professor David Mattingly of the School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leciester specializes in the archaeology of the Roman Empire with wide ranging research interests in Britain; Italy; Libya; Tunisia and Jordan, especially Roman Africa; the evolution of Roman military frontiers; and the study of native society beyond those frontiers.
