John A. Davies was, until December 2018, Chief Curator for Norfolk Museums Service and Director of the ‘Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval England’ project, based at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. He has worked as an archaeologist in Norfolk since 1984, specialising in the Roman and late prehistoric periods. He undertook his doctoral research into aspects of Roman coinage and has published widely on the subject of coinage from British archaeological sites. Since 1997, in his role as Keeper of Archaeology for Norfolk Museums Service, he has been involved in many archaeological discoveries. His publications include Land of the Iceni: The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia (1999), Venta Icenorum: Caistor St Edmund Roman Town (2001), The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk (2009), Boudica: Her Life, Times and Legacy (2009), The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia: New Work in the Land of the Iceni (2011), Castles and the Anglo-Norman World (2015) and A History of Norfolk in 100 Objects (2015). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.