Timothy W. Potter

Timothy William Potter, FSA (6 July 1944 – 11 January 2000) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the archaeology of Roman Italy and Roman Britain and was one of the most productive British practitioners of landscape archaeology of his generation. For the last two decades of his life he was a curator at the British Museum, where he became Keeper of the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities in 1995. He is best remembered for his synthesis The Changing Landscape of South Etruria; for his excavations at Narce and the Mola di Monte Gelato in Italy and at Stonea in the Cambridgeshire Fens; for his joint publication of the Thetford Treasure with Catherine Johns; and for his part in creating the British Museum's Weston Gallery of Roman Britain. He served as President of the Royal Archaeological Institute from 1999 until his death.