The best training-ground for archaeologists - P. W. M. Freeman

To his contemporaries, Francis John Haverfield was the 'father
of Romano-British studies', and his death on September 30th 1919
was greeted with widespread lamentation. In the decades
immediately following his death, Haverfield's reputation survived
largely undiminished, in fact his view of the Romanisation of
Britain became so widely accepted that it held sway for almost a
century, and is only now being re-examined by both positive and
negative interpreters of his views. What is clear however, is
that his immense contribution to the study of Roman Britain is
worthy of attention.