Ken Dark is a professor at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and works on the archaeology and history of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 1st millennium AD. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Royal Historical Society, he has written over 100 academic publications, including 15 books, and directed many archaeological excavations and surveys. He is currently director of the Tintagel Hinterland Project, and widely recognised as a leading expert on the archaeology and history of the fifth- to seventh-century Britons.