Grant Shand Author

Peter Clark was raised in Illinois, where he graduated from New Trier Township High School. He was in the United States Army from 1965 to 1968, including Vietnam service with the 1st Infantry Division. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Yale Law School and a member of the Massachusetts Bar. He has been a county prosecutor, counsel to state mental health and social service agencies, a legal aid lawyer, and an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts. He currently serves in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in the Office of the Inspector General. Grant Shand was a Field Archaeologist with the Canterbury Archaeological Trust between 1985 and 2007. In this role he participated in many archaeological excavations throughout the county of Kent, most notably directing the major excavations at Chalk Hill, Ramsgate between 1997 and 1998. He left the Trust in 2007 when he moved to Canada. Jake Weekes completed his doctorate at the University of Kent in 2005 and was a part-time lecturer there in Roman Archaeology and Classics from 1999–2007. He coordinated the South East Research Framework for the Historic Environment from 2007–8, before becoming Research Officer for the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Having developed a good working knowledge of the archaeology of south-east England from the Palaeolithic to the present, Jake maintains specific research interests in various aspects of British Prehistory, Roman Britain, Funerary Archaeology and early medieval Canterbury. Author of a number of respected articles and site reports since 2000, he is co-editor of the recent Death as a Process. The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral, and has contributed the chapter on Cemeteries and Funerary Practice for the new Oxford Handbook to Roman Britain.