Dr Stuart Needham, formerly curator of the European Bronze Age at The British Museum, is now an independent researcher and Honorary Research Fellow of Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Amongst his recent publications are Encompassing the sea: 'Maritories' and Bronze Age maritime interactions (in Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe, Oxbow), Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay and other marine finds of the Bronze Age (Council for British Archaeology, Research Report 173), The lost cultures of the halberd-bearers (in Celtic from the West 3, Oxbow).
George Anelay has been, since 2001, Director of West Sussex Archaeology Ltd, and was, from 2004 until 2012, also Heritage Outreach Officer for Chichester District Council. In both these roles he has directed a number of large-scale research excavations, including those at Middle Barn (The Selhurst Park Project: Middle Barn, Selhurstpark Farm, Eartham, West Sussex 2005-2008, Oxbow), Liss Roman Villa (2005-7), and Chichester city walls (2009-2010). He is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.