Corbridge Hoard

[mcbishop]

Dr. Bishop, I don't suppose you have handled any of the Corbridge finds yourself have you?

Couldn't really have written the book without doing so. ;-) I was also sitting next to Peter Connolly (it was in the Archaeology Annexe at Newcastle University in 1987 I think) when he did the first draft of that drawing. I told him what I wanted and he started sketching it out in pencil and that is when I saw true talent in operation. Any idiot can look through a bunch of rusty bits and say something portentous about it but to take my notion of what the reconstruction should look like (which was made up from a crummy bunch of sketches and a few black and white photos of the unpacking process) and just make it happen before your eyes was an unforgettable experience and one that Peter could 'just do'.

Here are my photos of the armour which I took whilst studying it.

Mike Bishop