Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Anna Wills and Peter Wilson for reading and commenting on an earlier version of this paper. To Professor and Dr. O’Connor for discussion of the surface pattern on the Jubilee Cave styli and Martin Dearne for a discussion of finds from non-Yorkshire Cave sites occupied in the Romano-British period. The illustrations are by Frances Saxton.
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Stephen J. Greep
Stephen J. Greep has published widely on aspects of Roman material culture, in particular on ceramics and objects of bone, antler and ivory (the subject of his PhD). He worked at the Verulamium Museum and for the Tyne and Wear Museum Service, leaving archaeology for 15 years until 2010. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Associate of the Museums Association. Until last year he was Chairman of the Roman Finds Group. He has contributed to several Yorkshire based projects (such as sections in excavations reports from Aldborough, Castleford, Dalton Parlours and Norton) and is currently engaged in writing papers on finds from Yorkshire based excavations at Aldborough, Brough and Welton.
Tom Lord
Tom Lord has a long history of involvement in cave archaeology in Yorkshire. He curates and researches an important collection of bones and artifacts from cave excavations from the 1860s to today. He has published widely in the Quaternary and archaeological literature.