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Ben Jervis Editor, Illustrator & Author

Dr Ben Jervis is lecturer in medieval archaeology at Cardiff University, where he specialises in the study of medieval archaeology and material culture. He is the author of Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England: Towards a relational approach (Oxbow, 2014) and co-editor of Objects, Environment and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe (Brepols, 2016), Food and Drink in Archaeology 4 (Prospect Books, 2015) and Make-do and Mend: Archaeologies of Compromise, Repair and Re-use (BAR, 2012). He has been involved in the analysis of major pottery assemblages from the Anglo-Saxon sites at Bishopstone (East Sussex) and Lyminge (Kent) as well as medieval pottery from excavations in Southampton. He was also pottery specialist for the Noviodunum Archaeological Project (Romania).